Woody Hayes Quotes

You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.

The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.

Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.

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

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad.

I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

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

You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.

Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.

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.

Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet
off the ground.

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

Success - it's what you do with what you've got.

It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth

No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

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.

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.

The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?

Because I couldn't go for three.

Anything easy ain't worth a damn!

When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.

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.

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.

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.

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

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.

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there.

The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me.