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Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

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
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I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good.
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It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.
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Without winners, there would be no civilization.
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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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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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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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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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When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.
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Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
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No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me.
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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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A man is always better than he thinks.
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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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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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