Woody Hayes Quotes

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

It's always too early to quit.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.

Just keep going hard.

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.

The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

The right way is the hard way.