Woody Hayes

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• "There is a force that makes us all brother, none gose his way alone, all the we send into the life of other comes back unto a own.
• "You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward."
• "A guy from Ohio can make it in life if he works hard enough."
• "You win with people."
• "Paralyze resistance with persistence."
• "There are three things that can happen when you throw a pass, and two of them are bad." This quote is often attributed to Hayes, but some contend General Robert Neyland of the University of Tennessee or Darrell Royal of the University of Texas was the source. Darrell Royal gives the credit to Woody Hayes as being the source of the quote.
• "I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face."
• "Discipline is 95 percent anticipation."
• "Without winners, there wouldn't even be any god damned civilization."
• "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."
• "One thing you cannot afford ever to do is to feel sorry for yourself."
• "There was no one who had better people than I did, or better football players. And, we outworked the other teams."
• "The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fatheaded, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad."
• "So many times I've found people smarter than I was.... But you know what they couldn't do? They couldn't outwork me. They couldn't outwork me!"
• "You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it."
• "Anything easy ain't worth a damn!"
• When asked why he went for two despite a 34 point lead against Michigan, Hayes quipped, "Because I couldn't go for three."
• "If you can't beat'em on the field, then beat'em on the sidelines. If you can't beat'em on the sidelines then beat the first person you see on the sidelines."