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“There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Football #Winning #People
“Paralyze resistance with persistence.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Perseverance #Failure #Adversity
“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.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Running #Smart #People
“There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Football #Motivational Sports #College
“Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Average #Rivers #Feet
“The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Beach #Winning #Ohio
“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.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Football #Country #Play
“You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Pay
“In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too-make sure they don't beat themselves.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Football #Team #Believe
“A man is always better than he thinks.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Thinking #Men #Coaching
“Anything easy ain't worth a damn!”
-- Woody Hayes

#Easy
“Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Perfect #Preparation #Poor
“Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Basketball #Character #Men
“When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Leadership #Sports #Winning
“You don't get many chances to pay back what's been done for you. Take them.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Pay #Done #Chance
“Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Character #Boys #Needs
“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.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Basketball #Winning #Differences
“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.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Graduation #Football #Player
“Without winners, there would be no civilization.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Civilization #Would Be #Winner
“The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?”
-- Woody Hayes

#Thinking #Winner #Minutes
“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.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Men #Years #Trouble
“I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Smart #Very Smart
“The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Football #Deceptive
“I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.”
-- Woody Hayes

#People #May #Able
“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.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Football #Mistake #Games
“Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Kids #Men #Giving
“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. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have. “Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Running #Fun #Smart
“Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Army #Men #Winning
“I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Nice #People #Tough
“You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.”
-- Woody Hayes

#Trying #You Can Do It

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