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A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

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
General
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Good
Always
Weaknesses
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Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.
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I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.
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Without winners, there would be no civilization.
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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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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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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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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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They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me.
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We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.
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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 love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.
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The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
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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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I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.
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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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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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Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet off the ground.
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