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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.

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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
Rules
Leadership
Positive
Attitude
Control
Sports
Attitudes
Mental

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Nothing that comes easy in this world is worth a damn.
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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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You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.
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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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The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?
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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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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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Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.
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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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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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When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.
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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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The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
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You don't get many chances to pay back what's been done for you. Take them.
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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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It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth
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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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You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.
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The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.
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Anything easy ain't worth a damn!
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