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Sports coaches famous quotes
slow hands
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14-May-2008 12:04
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I love hearing about quotes/stories that are attributed to sports coaches. Anybody have any?
I read this one not so long ago form Paul Wallace about Jim Telfer, the scottish coach with the Lions in 97..
There was a welsh winger with the lions (his name escapes me ) , and during one of Telfers training sessions he was jinking and dancing around players but not making any ground. Telfer pipes up...."Jesus man, your like a f**king lighthouse in the desert, amazing to look at, but completely f**king useless..."
ttown buoy
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14-May-2008 12:47
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That world-renowned American football coach Al Pacino went into some rant about inches once upon a time.
The Goat
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14-May-2008 12:47
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We were playing pretty bad one day and at half-time the manager was pointing out how bad we were. He said,"I wish I could pluck my eyes out so I don`t have to look at that!"
Kid Chocolate
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14-May-2008 12:50
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the greatets of them all
HT AIF 1995
"We`re going to do it"
count of monte cristo
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14-May-2008 12:57
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one of the local bar stool experts
"wexford? if they were playing down on the beach i wouldnt go watch them"
for proper quotes google vince lombardi
southsider
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14-May-2008 13:06
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Sky reporter to Gordon Strachan "Gordon, Can a have a quick word"
Strachan "velocity"
flynner
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14-May-2008 13:35
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"If winning is`nt everything, then why do they keep score?"Vince Lombardi
"To some people hurling might not be important in the great scheme of things, but to hurling people, hurling is the great scheme of things" Ger Loughnane
Big_Lebowski
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14-May-2008 13:58
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Originally posted by Kid Chocolate:
the greatets of them all
HT AIF 1995
"We`re going to do it"
Considering Clare had not won an All Ireland since 1914 and Loughnane to come out of the dressing room after half time and say that was something else. It would have being great to be a fly in the wall in that dressing room 5 minutes beforehand.
I love hearing it back and then watching the clip of Taffe scoring that goal with the crowd in the canel end going bananas. It is one my my favourite memories in hurling after Ciaran Carey`s point the following year!
From minute 1.05....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FFkHRubIDs
flangy
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14-May-2008 14:41
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The late American Basketball coach, Jimmy Valvano, had a very famous, inspiring speech. Deeply touching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePXlkqkFH6s
It`s worth researching some of his work.
On a lighter note Ian Holloway has given a few good speeches over the years but this one is priceless!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9rI7p7vmk
bluestone
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14-May-2008 14:50
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"if i catch any of ye trainin, your drop ped"
our junior b manager after winnin the 1st round of football championship
Hurling Mad
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14-May-2008 15:26
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Lads ye can go to the niteclubs but for f**ks sake will ye forget about those f**kin house parties, up all nite drinkin liqour and ye come out ere den and expect to play football, ye just cant do it lads... ye wont get away wit it like!
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14-May-2008 15:50
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Originally posted by Hurling Mad:
Lads ye can go to the niteclubs but for f**ks sake will ye forget about those f**kin house parties, up all nite drinkin liqour and ye come out ere den and expect to play football, ye just cant do it lads... ye wont get away wit it like!
"You Have hands like Polo Mints",Or another classic"Some of ye would go to the opening of an Envelope"
juniorBman
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14-May-2008 22:28
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Lads it`s alright to be goin out the night before a match and drinking 10 or 12 pints but how do ye expect to play a match when ye`re falling out of the Queens at 3 o`clock in the morning
An fear glas agus dubh
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15-May-2008 10:58
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Brian Clough: "if God wanted football to be played in the air he would have put grass up there"
Fr Murphys Ghost
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15-May-2008 11:21
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I had finished my leaving but was still minor. Had hurling training on one sunday morning after the leaving had finished and we were all on the lash on saturday night as ye do.
I had scored with a young wan on the saturday night and the boys were giving me abuse all through training and i was having a nightmare during training due to the beer.
Pulled on the ball on the ground one time and it dribbled out in front of me so went to pull on it again with the same result.
With that the trainer turned around to tell me "for f sake your only patting it, pretend its the young wan you were with last night and give it a good lash"
With that, i turned around and said "all i was doing was patting it last night aswell" I can still see him laughing his ass off looking to the heavens asking how in the name of god can ye answer that.
an bearna baoil
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15-May-2008 11:30
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Its not the long ball
its not the short ball
its the right ball
Bob Paisley
thebook
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quotes from a legendary limerick hurler turned manager:
`If there was hair on it, you`d catch it`
`That fvcking kunt playing with the well, he wouldnt hit the ball the length of his langer`
`A hurley, lads, is a dangerous weapon in the hands of a fool`
`gimme your face til i go beggin`
`that was a w**zer of a ball` we heard this an awful lot . )
Another legend manager came out with:
`A mini-bus to a match? A fvking hi-ace van is too good for some a ye kvnts`
`Ye wouldnt bate the sisters a mercy lads`
`This fvckin cipin of a stick, lads it wouldnt bate calves back from a bucket`
`That fvcker from unnamed club, lads he`s only a p**ihead` Said fvker scored all round him, then in the match
I think the funniest thing ive seen in a long time was this guy, dancing with glee in the middle of the field on a pitch black february night (we`ve very bad floodlights ) , when one of our players got knocked out after getting a belt of a sliothar right in the forehead. The manager had spent the last 6 weeks trying to get us to hit every ball like a bullet straight at a fellas head. Madness . )
If i could only remember em all. Someone really should write a book on hurling quotes and characters
Fr Murphys Ghost
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15-May-2008 11:53
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Bill Shankly made a point of welcoming all visiting teams to Anfield as they got off the bus. Man Utd turned up one day for a crunch league game. George Best tells the story of Bobby Charlton being a hypochondriac and when he was getting off the bus Shankly made a point of shaking his hand and commenting “Welcome Bobby, jesus you don’t look the best at all son, you must have some sort of bug cos ye don’t look at all well. Id make a point of going to the doc after the match Bobby if I was you”. Best tells of 10mins before the match the manger announces Charlton has taken a bit of a turn and isn’t playing.
Wasn’t a thing wrong with him according to Best and Utd ended up losing the match with Charlton sitting in the dug out covered in a blanket.
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"Lads, ye are worse than useless - and that`s praising ye."
C'monbridge
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15-May-2008 11:57
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You`ve probably seen them all before, but here you go anyway.
25 reasons GAA is Better Than Soccer
1 ) The GAA player who played in front of 80,000 at the weekend will be teaching your children, selling you meat or fixing your drains on Monday morning. The soccer player who plays in front of 80,000 will be moaning about playing too many games and will be trying to sell you his personalised brand of leisure wear
2 ) GAA nicknames are better (The Bull, The Bomber, etc. ) . Soccer players just add a Y to their surnames
3 ) Dublin vs Meath is a real derby. What does Utd. Vs City mean to Ronaldo or Sibierski
4 ) How many soccer players does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer eleven. One to stick it in and ten to surround and kiss him after he does it
5 ) Soccer players go to the papers after a game. GAA players go to the pub
6 ) John Terry would run a mile if he came up against Francie Bellew
7 ) GAA teams are numbered 1-15. A soccer team reads like the lottery results
8 ) All soccer players wear shin pads. Some hurlers wear helmets
9 ) Television runs soccer. Schoolteachers run the GAA
10 ) The GAA is about where you`re from. Soccer is about who you like
11 ) No segregation at GAA games
12 ) No soccer team has a nickname quite as lovely as the Fighting Cocks of Carlow
13 ) Bubble perms never made it to Croke Park
14 ) A scoreless draw in the GAA would be quite a novelty
15 ) The GAA may not appreciate its women as much as it should but at least we all know who Cora Stanunton is. The most famous woman in English soccer is Posh Spice
16 ) Under age players get to be part of the biggest days in hurling and football at half-time in the All-Ireland.
17 ) Micheal O`Murchearaigh.
18 ) If a GAA player ever jumped at a spectator like Eric Cantona did the rest of his team would join in. So would the rest of the crowd.
19 ) Vinnie Jones grabbed Gascoignes testicles. Paudie O`Se decked Joe McNally during the National Anthem. McNally learnt his lesson. Gascoigne just got worse.
20 ) The GAA season always leaves you wanting more. The soccer season leaves soccer people demanding less. "Fewer games please"
21 ) Old soccer players get testimonials, Old GAA players just slip down to junior.
22 ) Rural villages = A Church, A Post-office, a Pub and a GAA pitch.
23 ) Pints after the match with the lad you knocked seven lumps of s**he out of in the game.
24 ) Croke park on a Summer`s Day.
25 ) Roman Abramovich can buy the League. You can`t
C'monbridge
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Hurling Slang
HOLLY __ e.g. "I gave it holly"__-I put a fair bit of effort into it.
B0LLIX____Pat Spillane or any kerry players or supporters
MIGHTY__-Very good
HAMES__-A right ****e-e.g.-"He made a hames of that chance"
TIMBER__-Intimidation of a hurling opponent - e.g.- "Show him some timber"
LAMP____A good thump__-e.g.-"I swung for the sliotar, missed by 3 feet and lamped the full back"
A CROWD__-A gathering of people who watch a match and hope for random acts
of violence -e.g-Meath supporters
SCHKELP__-To remove living tissue in the absence of surgical procedures __ e.g. "That whore from Tipp took a schkelp outta me leg"
HATCHET MAN__-Mountainy type, uses hunter/gatherer instincts
BULLIN`__-Angry-e.g-"The centre half was bullin` after I lamped him"
BULL THICK__-Very angry-e.g.-"The centre half was bull thick after I lamped him again"
JOULT__-A push-e.g.-"I gave him ! a joult and he has to wear a neck brace for 2 weeks"
THE COMM-A-TEEE__-Local GAA bulls**hters in general
BUSHTED__-An undefined soreness-e.g.-"Jayz me arm is bushted"
THE BOMBER__-Popular name for a fat hairy GAA player
A HANG SANGWIDGE__-Consumed with "tay" on the sides of roads after matches in Croker or Thurles, usually contains half a pound of butter
RAKE-A great amount of anything, usually pints of Guinness the night before an important match
INDANAMAJAYSUS (in-da-nama-Jaysus ) __! -What was that for referee?
YA B0LLIX YA__-Corner back`s formal recognition of a score by his opponent
LEH-IT-IN-TA-FcuK-WUD-YA__-Full forwards appeal to a midfielder for a more timely delivery of the pass
MULLOCKER__-Untidy or awkward player released for matches
BURST THE B0LLIX__-Instructions from the sideline to tackle your man
ROW__-Disagreement involving four or more players
MASSIVE ROW__-Disagreement involving both teams, including goalies, substitutes and supporters jumping fences
ALL-HELL-BROKE-LOOSE__-A massive row that continues out in the parking area or
dressing room areas, usually resolved by the Gardai
Finty
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What about Mike Mac`s one lads when the Clare hurlers were looking for a bit of change to the training
"If you want variation, change ye`re women"
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Was at a Doon vs Killeedy match in the late 80s as spectator. Went in from the sideline at half time to listen to the team talk (back in the days when you did it huddled on the pitch ) . Doon hadnt been going well and were down a few points. The two teams were grouped no more than 30 yards apart. In the middle of the rousing talk from the manager one of the well known Doon players who has a particularly loud voice shouts out "Cmon for fvcks sake lads ye dont want to be beaten by a bunch of fvcking farmers from West Limerick do ye". Jesus I thought we would never get out of there alive. Didnt really understand the insult anyway coz we were mostly a bunch of farmers from East Limerick.
KadePoki
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15-May-2008 13:03
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wont give the player`s name but their was a guy from east waterford on the intercounty snr team only a year or two ago and lets just say he wasnt up to the mark...................
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"For F**ks Sake, You could hook him from the stand"
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a few yrs back up training with the club one of the lads, about 6ft 5 and a bit of a weight problem was soloing through only to trip himself up....the way he fell was hilarious in itself but as he lay there with everyone laughing the manager shouts in "for f**k sake would somebody call the aquarium, there`s a beached whale in the middle of the pitch". It`s one of those ones where ya had to be there to find it really funny.
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