Woody Hayes
Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.Collection: Motivational
Success - it's what you do with what you've got.Collection: Success
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.
I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
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.
I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there.
No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.
I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
A man is always better than he thinks.
The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.
I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
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.
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.
The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.
As the youngest, I don't think there was any doubt I was spoiled.
My brother and I were still in high school playing football, and we were both middleweight, and we couldn't find anyone else to fight in our weight class, so we'd fight each other. I was a stand-up fighter, and Ike was a weaving type of fighter, and we fought that way out there at Cy Young's farm, and we put on quite a show.
On our first date, all Anne wanted to talk about was Bob Feller, the new pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.
I'm no longer the head football coach at Ohio State.
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.Collection: Basketball
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Football
Because I couldn't go for three.Collection: Three
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.Collection: Running
You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.Collection: Pay
Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.Collection: Perfect
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.Collection: Football
It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forthCollection: Men
Nothing that comes easy in this world is worth a damn.Collection: World
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Motivational
The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.Collection: Beach
Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.Collection: Team
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.Collection: Running
When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Football
We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.Collection: Leadership
Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.Collection: Average
Without winners, there would be no civilization.Collection: Civilization
You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.Collection: Trying
They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me.Collection: May
I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.Collection: Football