Thoughts from Woody Hayes

“I'd like to give you a little advice today. I'll try not to give you too much, just a little bit. One thing you cannot afford to do -- that's to feel sorry for yourself. That's what leads to drugs, to alcohol, to those things that tear you apart. In football, we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too -- make sure they don't beat themselves.” -- Woody Hayes, commencement speech, Ohio State University, March 14, 1986