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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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
Attitudes
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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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I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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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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The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.
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