Welcome to a daily Bucknuts mini-feature called the Morning Woody Quote, where we start your day off with some words of wisdom from legendary Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes or other famous figures. Check back for a new quote with each new edition of the feature!
Quote of the day for July 23, 2008:
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"When I came back to Ohio, I had developed a greater respect for Woody's integrity, because I had seen a lot more people, and I had seen how people who had celebrity got compromised. He never got compromised by it. At the same time, it broke my heart that he was unable, or unwilling, to let that shield down and allow people to love him and encourage him. I guess he thought it would be compromising to his personality. I would talk to him like I would talk to anyone; I wouldn't get down on my knees because it was Woody Hayes. What I said to him I said to him because I respected him and cared for him. I think he was a tragic character. A person who can't give and receive love is tragic. Visiting people in the hospital was his way of expressing love. It wasn't that he was devoid of love, but I don't think he was able to articulate it."
 Bob Vogel, from the book "Woody's Boys" by Alan Natali. Vogel's relationship with Hayes was not as close as that of his teammates.
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Quote of the day for July 22, 2008:
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"When I played in the East-West Shrine game, some guy from Michigan State asked me how Ohio State paid me.
"I said, 'Nothing.'
"He said, 'B***s***. We get paid a hundred dollars a month."
"We didn't get (expletive). If we got anything and Woody found out about it, he'd kill you."
Billy Joe Armstrong, from the book "Woody's Boys" by Alan Natali
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Quote of the day for July 21, 2008:
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"So many times you have found here at the University people who were smarter than you. I found them all the way through college and in football: bigger, faster, harder. They were smarter people than I. But you know what they couldn't do? They couldn't outwork me. I ran into opposing coaches who had much better backgrounds than I did and knew a lot more about football than I did. But they couldn't work as long as I did. They couldn't stick in there as long as I could. You can outwork anybody. Try it and you'll find out you can do it."
Woody Hayes
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Quote of the day for July 20, 2008:
| "In my four years, I remember that Woody missed practice once. On that day, he disappeared from practice, and I found out later what had happened. He had gotten word that a young student had just broken his neck playing intramural football... I guess one of the managers had gotten a message to him. Woody left practice to go to University Hospital. He took an autographed football and stayed there with that boy until his parents showed up. Woody didn't want him to be alone."
Dwight "Ike" Kelley, from the book "What It Means To Be A Buckeye" by Jim Tressel and Jeff Snook
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Quote of the day for July 19, 2008:
| "I got the touchdown... and the old stadium was rocking like it never rocked before. Kevin Rusnak was at quarterback. We probably should have called timeout right there to get organized, but we didn't. We were trained not to waste timeouts. It really was very innocent, but we lined up to run a play just to get it run before we got a delay of game. But we didn't score [the two-point conversion]. Woody had nothing to do with it, and I take the blame for it, but Woody always shouldered the blame for one of his players.
"As everybody knows, after the game when he was asked why he went for two points with a 50-14 lead, Woody replied, 'Because they wouldn't let me go for three.'"
Jim Otis, from the book "What It Means To Be A Buckeye" by Jim Tressel and Jeff Snook, detailing the background behind the "wouldn't let me go for three" play
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Quote of the day for July 18, 2008:
| "What a wonderful lady Anne Hayes was. She was just as good a person as he was -- maybe even better, because she had to put up with him. We all did, but he made us better people for it."
Rex Kern, from the book "What It Means To Be A Buckeye" by Jim Tressel and Jeff Snook
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Quote of the day for July 17, 2008:
| "We knew when we were there, we were playing for a legend. Not after. We knew right then and there."
Tom Skladany, from the book "Woody's Boys" by Alan Natali
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Quote of the day for July 16, 2008:
| "I had the endurance and ability to do what I did in the pros because of Woody Hayes. I can't give him anymore credit than that, and this's a guy that gave me ulcers in college."
Tom Matte, from the book "Woody's Boys" by Alan Natali
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