I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
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… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves.… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it?… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
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… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
My brother and I were still in high school playing football, and we were both middleweight, and we couldn't find anyone else… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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… — Woody Hayes Copy Share
I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know… — Woody Hayes Copy Share
