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"All Good". (Jack Watts to ABC reporter getting off the plane at Tullamarine)

Yeah I saw that, his face said it all though.....reminded me of the last words of a certain cruise ship captain whose 100th anniversary will be celebrated later in the week.
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Some of my favs

Winston Churchill - "If you are going through hell, keep going"

Unknown - "Pain is temporary, pride is forever"

Muhammad Ali - "I hated every minute of training, but I said, don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion."

NAVY SEAL motto - "The only easy day was yesterday"

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With the almost famous Neeld eye twitch in Clint Eastwood Heartbreak Ridge style

"kids, I'm coach Neeld, & just so you know I've drunk more beer , banged more quiff and [censored] more blood than any of you [censored] put together so if you think you can just cruise this season because your last coach was a [censored], well [censored] bait You can start acting and playing like footballers starting from next Saturday"

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With the almost famous Neeld eye twitch in Clint Eastwood Heartbreak Ridge style

"kids, I'm coach Neeld, & just so you know I've drunk more beer , banged more quiff and [censored] more blood than any of you [censored] put together so if you think you can just cruise this season because your last coach was a [censored], well [censored] bait You can start acting and playing like footballers starting from next Saturday"

Loved that character .Clint -such a sensitive soul .
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Yeah I saw that, his face said it all though.....reminded me of the last words of a certain cruise ship captain whose 100th anniversary will be celebrated later in the week.

struck me as mechanistic and robotic... same as they play... i think the players have overdosed on 'system', 'structure' and sermonising.

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"What matters most is not that we do our best, but that what needs to be done gets done." - Churchill.

Basically - I don't give a sh!t if you trained and played all your life in the VFL. We need an inside mid at AFL level, and you are our best chance. Get in there and make it happen.

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Runner : Boss, Henry Playfair has got concussion and doesn't know who he is.

Mark Thompson : Tell him he's Wayne Carey and send him back on.

'The meek may inherit the earth- but they will never win games of football.' Mick Malthouse

"Dont do that Garry."-Ablett sr before knocking Lyon out.

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If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Yogi Berra

Hahaha

"Mark Lee's long arms reaching up like giant testicles."

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I love an inspirational quote... I have got a 500 page book full of them. However, there is only one quote that I have ever actually hand-written and pinned to my wall so I can see it each day:

Jim Stynes:

"If you can let go of that fear in life... then you can do anything. It allows you to really let go and chase the things that you really want to do in your life, and live out the life that you were born to live"

I heard him say that on his DVD, and wrote it down over a year ago. It is still on my wall to this day, and it will stay on my wall. Best quote I've ever heard, and one that actually has had a lasting effect on me.

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This is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt and a favourite of mine. I often think of this when certain journalists decide to give a particular young player of ours a constant trial by media!

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

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This is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt and a favourite of mine. I often think of this when certain journalists decide to give a particular young player of ours a constant trial by media!

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

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This is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt and a favourite of mine. I often think of this when certain journalists decide to give a particular young player of ours a constant trial by media!

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

great qoute-and approriate.
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