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Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.

Woody Hayes

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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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Basketball

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I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.
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Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
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The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.
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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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Without winners, there would be no civilization.
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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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In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too - make sure they don't beat themselves.
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No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
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The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.
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A man is always better than he thinks.
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I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.
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Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.
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The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad.
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Anything easy ain't worth a damn!
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I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
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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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We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.
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The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.
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