Woody Hayes Michigan Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Woody Hayes

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

Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. ~ Woody Hayes

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

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

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. ~ Woody Hayes

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

Anything easy ain't worth a damn! ~ Woody Hayes

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

We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules. ~ Woody Hayes

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

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

Because I couldn't go for three. ~ Woody Hayes

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

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

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

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

I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people. ~ Woody Hayes

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

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses. ~ Woody Hayes

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

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

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

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

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

[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in his monologues. I think on those days, he [Woody Harrelson] really had to stay in the zone. Because there's a certain cadence in which that character speaks and talks about life, you know? But then there are other days that he was able to be a little more loose. ~ Michelle Monaghan

I am, by nature, a guitar player ... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar. ~ Hunter Hayes

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life. ~ Woody Allen

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. ~ Bob Dylan

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior. ~ Scarlett Johansson

Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate. ~ Woody Allen

There are - any independent study, from any scientist that's not funded by Syngenta, has found similar problems with atrazine, not just my work on frogs. ~ Tyrone Hayes

The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship. ~ Stephen K. Hayes

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life. ~ Jeff Daniels

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.' ~ Emma Roberts

Red onions are especially divine. I hold a slice up to the sunlight pouring in through the kitchen window, and it glows like a fine piece of antique glass. Cool watery-white with layers delicately edged with imperial purple ... strong, humble, peaceful ... with that fiery nub of spring green in the center ... ~ Mary Hayes-Grieco

I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British. ~ Woody Allen

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. ~ Rutherford B. Hayes

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat ... college, ~ Woody Allen

In Parton's telling, the Village is "a permanent D.C. ruling class who has managed to convince themselves that they are simple, puritanical, bourgeois burghers and farmers, even though they are actually celebrity millionaires influencing the most powerful government on earth."17 It's not just the activist base of the left and the right who have recognized the widespread elite failure; more and more individual elites have broken ranks to acknowledge their own responsibility. ~ Christopher L. Hayes