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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
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Paralyze resistance with persistence.
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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 like nice people. I like tough, honest people.
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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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I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.
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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 can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.
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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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Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.
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You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.
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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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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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Because I couldn't go for three.
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Without winners, there would be no civilization.
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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 am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
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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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I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.
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Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.
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Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
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