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The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

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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
Games
Tactics
Strategy
Football
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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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The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.
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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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Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
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I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.
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Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
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A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.
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They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me.
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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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Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.
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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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