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You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.

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
Outwork
Anybody
Find
Trying

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Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.
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I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
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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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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 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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I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.
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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 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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Because I couldn't go for three.
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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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The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.
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There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
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Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.
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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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Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.
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Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
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It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth
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Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.
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Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.
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