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Nothing that comes easy in this world is 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
World
Damn
Worth
Easy
Comes
Nothing

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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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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.
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Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.
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You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.
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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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A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.
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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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I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
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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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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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