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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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I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.
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Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.
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They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me.
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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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I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
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A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.
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