Woody Hayes Quotes

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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.

  Woody Hayes

  Basketball, Winning, Differences

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• There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Motivational Sports, Adversity

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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.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Ohio, Giving

  "All or Nothing: The Michigan Wolverines/ Bury the Naysayers/ Trivia". www.imdb.com.

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• Because I couldn't go for three.

  Woody Hayes

  Three

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• 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

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• You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.

  Woody Hayes

  Pay

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• Nothing that comes easy in this world is worth a damn.

  Woody Hayes

  World, Easy, This World

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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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  Football, Country, Play

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• Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

  Woody Hayes

  Perfect, Preparation, Poor

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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

  Woody Hayes

  Men, Effort, Doe

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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.

  Woody Hayes

  Respect, Kids, Men

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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

  Motivational, Football, Winning

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• Paralyze resistance with persistence.

  Woody Hayes

  Perseverance, Failure, Adversity

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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.

  Woody Hayes

  Running, Hurt, Clouds

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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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  Beach, Winning, Ohio

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• Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

  Woody Hayes

  Team, Sound, Score

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• 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

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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.

  Woody Hayes

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Eye, College

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• 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

  Woody Hayes' commencement speech at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. March 14, 1986.

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• Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

  Woody Hayes

  Average, Rivers, Feet

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• I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.

  Woody Hayes

  Nice, People, Tough

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

  Woody Hayes

  Leadership, Sports, Attitude

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• 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

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• Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

  Woody Hayes

  Character, Boys, Needs

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