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 August 21, 2008:
| "He brought me into this coaches meeting, and he introduced me.
Woody says, 'Pull down your pants.'
I'm going, 'Excuse me?'
Meanwhile, these graduate assistants are lookin' around like, 'The old man's finally flipped.'
He's going, 'Now, just pull down your pants. I want them to look at your legs.'
'Well, whatever you say, Coach.'
I pull down my pants.
He goes, 'Look at that pair of legs. Did you lift weighs?'
'No, I run a lot. I run every day.'
He was just amazed: 'Look at those quadriceps. Look at those hamstrings.'
And those coaches: 'Umm hmm, umm hmm.'
It was like General Motors, you know: 'What do you think of the new fenders?'
'Ahh, great boss. Whatever you say.'
'Pull your pants up.'
Some of those guys who were graduate assistants in that meeting I got to be really good friends with. They couldn't believe it: 'Woody had you pull your pants down, man.'"
 Champ Henson, from the book "Woody's Boys" by Alan Natali
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Quote of the day for August 20, 2008:
| "There was another part that crept into him too, and you just don't know what part this plays: Woody always had a sugar problem. Well, at the beginning of the season -- and I don't know much about this technically -- his sugar is 80, 90. By the end of the season, it's 300 or 400. That affects you, too, and if you go back and look at his rages, they're all at the end of the season. For 28 years at Ohio State, his rages were all at the end of the season. That's always when his sugar would be high. He'd be so involved and preoccupied with football in our days he'd eat Fig Newtons. They'd be stashed in his drawer. He ate carelessly, because he's putting in all these hours. That was before Wendy's and McDonald's. So that could've had a big impact on his whole life."
Daryl Sanders, from the book "Woody's Boys" by Alan Natali
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Quote of the day for August 18, 2008:
| "At a very early age, Woody made up his mind to be the best that he could be. When he came to Ohio State, what he was going to do was not going to be dictated by others. He was going to live and die on his own abilities, and he was not going to be pressured by anybody. The time with him changed me. I think that I'm a better person for having been with Woody for four years. I look back on it now very fondly, and I'm glad that he was my coach. He taught me about education, about doing my best, and getting the most out of myself. I thought those were all positives. I also thought he was a little crazy. He was so extreme. He ate and slept football. You know, sleeping on the couch in his office. I thought he was crazy. I'm all for the work ethic, but there's a limit."
Daryl Sanders, from the book "Woody's Boys" by Alan Natali
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Quote of the day for August 17, 2008:
| "I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation."
Former Nebraska head coach Bob Devaney
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Quote of the day for August 16, 2008:
| "Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football."
John Heisman
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Quote of the day for August 15, 2008:
| "Being part of the Buckeye family is very, very special to me. The guys who played in the fifties support the guys who played in the nineties and so on. I can't walk through an airport anywhere without seeing somebody wearing an Ohio State hat. The support is everywhere, and I can say that Ohio State ranks supreme in my mind."
Eddie George, 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 August 14, 2008:
| "Individualism really is a disease. It's one thing I really like about coach Tressel. The Ohio State program is back to being a team. It's a special place and provides a special experience. It's really too bad that everybody can't come out of that tunnel and run onto that field just one time. You come off the ground emotionally. In this whole world and atmosphere at that particular time, you are on one of the grandest stages and part of one of the biggest shows on earth. It's very special."
Jim Stillwagon, from the book "What It Means To Be A Buckeye" by Jim Tressel and Jeff Snook
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