'We're taking this match awful seriously. We're
training three times a week now, and some of the boys
are off the beer since Tuesday'
- Offaly hurler quote in the week before an
All-Ireland final
'Ger Loughnane was fair, he treated us all the same
during training-like dogs' -anonymous Clare hurler
'Any chance of an autograph? Its for the wife...she
really hates you'
- Tipp fan to Ger Loughnane
'I'm not giving away any secrets like that to Tipp. If
I had my way,I wouldn't even tell them the time of the
throw-in'
- Ger Loughnane on his controversial selection policy.
'You can't win derbies with donkeys'
-Babs Keating before Tipp played Cork in 1990
'Sheep in a heap' -Babs Keating description of Offaly
in 1998
'Babs keating 'resigned' as coach because of illness
and fatigue.The players were sick and tired of him'
- Offaly fan in 1998
'And as for you. You're not even good enough to play
for this shower of useless no-hopers'
- Former Clare mentor to one of his subs after a
heavy defeat
'Babs keating was arrested in Nenagh for shaking a
cigarette machine,but the gardai let him off when he
said he only wanted to borrow twenty players'
- Waterford fan after 2002 Munster final
'They have a forward line that couldn't punch holes
in a paper bag'
-Pat Spillane on the Cavan football team
'Meath players like to get their retaliation in
first' - Cork fan 1988
'Meath make football a colourful game-you get all
black and blue'
- another Cork fan 1988
'Colin Corkery is deceptive. He is slower than he
looks' - Kerry fan
'Life isn't all beer and football...some of us haven't
touched a football in months'
- Kerry player during league campaign 1980s.
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