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The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.

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Woody Hayes
Age: 74 †
Born: 1913
Born: February 14
Died: 1987
Died: March 12
Football Player
Military Officer
Clifton
Ohio
Wayne Woodrow Hayes
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When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.
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Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
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I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.
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I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
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The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
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The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.
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I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
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Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.
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The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
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You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.
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Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet off the ground.
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A man is always better than he thinks.
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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.
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Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.
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The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?
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Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.
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You don't get hurt running straight ahead...three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.
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