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Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.

Woody Hayes

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Woody Hayes
Age: 74 †
Born: 1913
Born: February 14
Died: 1987
Died: March 12
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Wayne Woodrow Hayes
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