Woody Hayes Quotes

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.

You can lose games, but when you look back on the games you lose, you must be, 'Okay, we lost, but we did everything to win it.'

My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.

I have had extreme ups and downs. The biggest thing I learned after I broke my wrist is to never give up. Nothing in life will ever come easy. It depends on how you deal with those obstacles and how you overcome those obstacles. If you can overcome them, you're a stronger person. If you make mistakes along the way, as long as you never make that same mistake again, you're a successful person.

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

I've made mistakes. More than my share. Hopefully, I've learned from them, but can't guarentee anything. There's only one thing I can promise. I'm taking this to the end." -Bobby Pendragon

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.

Winners don't believe in fate like others do. They simply cannot accept defeat.

If you think that I got to come off the bench, then I am going to put you in a position to try to prove you wrong. Then after a while, it was kind of fun, and over the years it was my makeup.

This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

You've got to push things and get bumps and bruises along the way.

When you're on the pitch, you should never give up and concede easy goals.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

Life is about falling down, getting up, and moving ahead.

I take every rep personally. If somebody beats me, I'm going to take that personally.

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.

It's not OK to fail. It's that things can fail and absolutely will go wrong - just keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.

We play to win, with the arms that we have.

I try to prove everybody wrong and those who underestimate me, that's why I train hard.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

I don't believe in make-or-break moments in your life. If you screw something up, it can knock you down, but that only means you'll be better when you get back to where you were before.

A successful man is built of 1,000 failures.