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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
Worth
Easy
Anything
Damn

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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 bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.
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You don't get hurt running straight ahead...three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.
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A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.
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Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
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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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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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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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Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet off the ground.
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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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I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.
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I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.
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Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.
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When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.
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Nothing that comes easy in this world is worth a damn.
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The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.
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Paralyze resistance with persistence.
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You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.
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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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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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