Woody Hayes was never shy talking about how much he valued hard work.
Many of the
old coach’s most quoted truisms are about how he was able to achieve great success by
outworking those around him who happened to be smarter or more talented.
Summing...
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Woody Hayes was never shy talking about how much he valued hard work.
Many of the
old coach’s most quoted truisms are about how he was able to achieve great success by
outworking those around him who happened to be smarter or more talented.
Summing up that success and giving guidance to future generations from his home state,
Hayes uttered the maxim, “A guy from Ohio can make it in life if he works hard enough.
”
History is littered with Ohioans who believed that message was truest on the football
field, and the coach who might most fulfill that image these days is Urban Meyer.
A native of Ashtabula, Meyer reached the top of his profession through a meteoric rise.
Six years after taking his first head coaching job with a moribund Bowling Green program,
Meyer was on top of the college football world after leading Florida to the 2006 national
title.
Two years later, he won another national championship, but two years after that, he was
gone.
Burned out and battli
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