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Anything easy ain't worth a damn!

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
Damn
Worth
Easy
Anything

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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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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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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 most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
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You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.
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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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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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They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me.
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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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You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.
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I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.
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Nothing that comes easy in this world is worth a damn.
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Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.
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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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You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.
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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 good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.
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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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Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
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