Favorite quotes from coaches ....

I'm not going to name the coach but these were his words...

Coach to the distance guys on the track team...

"You guys need to run today! (Name of athlete) you need to step up, hell sh!t yourself on the track, I don't care. We'll have one of the trainers clean it up!"

One of the many motivating quotes from this coach.

brother satch wrote:

"satch ,I'm running this team ,not you".

OK, for once you posted somthing funny!

"A dictionary only cost three dollars and fifty cents. You know what that means...WORDS ARE CHEAP!" - Mike Curcio

"Time is only imporant in jail" - another Curcio favorite.

"Nobody is completely worthless, you can always serve as a bad example"

"You're f*&kin' hanging us, son."

-Ron Bazil @ 3.5 mile mark of conference meet where I, in fact, hung my team.

In the weight room after having watched his runners lift for a few minutes our Coach made this statement (the week before the SEC cross country championships).

"Team, I don't know how we'll do in the race next week but if a fight breaks out my money is on this team."

Sadly enough he was right, we stood a much better chance in brawl than we did in the race.

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Looks me dead in the eye and says "I used to fvck guys like you in prison" after I made a smart ass remark.

Also, "It's hotter than two rats fvcking in a wool sock under a coal stove"

Some of his favorite nicknames were "crack baby", "brain damage", and "c*********".

He was old-school.

"I don't call you 'runner', so you don't call me 'coach'"

He said this in order to get us to call him by his real name/nickname. It makes sense.

coach klein (referring to running form):

"Elbows at 90, hold the chip, ear to holster"

coach sauer (at any point during the race):

"Ya gotta go now!!!"

said to the kid behind me

"run faster you pussy!"

coach: you could have ran harder.

athlete: how do you know?

coach: you didn't die.

Maybe there are a few reading this that were coached by this character that can identify him.

Before every interval: "Take a moment to collect you thoughts. 35.0 at the 200. No faster. Whenever ever your ready...(after 200) 34.7!!- STOP!!!. Jog back to the line and lets do this right dammit!!

while doing mountain climbers in the gym at school....

(hands in front of you feet out behind you, moving knees up to chest and alternating legs) coach was doing the workout with us so he was looking at the ground most of the time, sweatin his ass off

"FAST!!, FASTER!!, FASSSTT!, (looks over at me) holy shit!"

"i don't want you to work hard, i want you to work fast"

"miracles can happen on race day, if you train for them, if not it's gonna take a miracle to save your ass"

haha and on of my favourites, during a 4x1k sophomore year with short rest, coach had been away at world cross and had missed 2 weeks of good training, first day back

"3:08 too fast, i want you to get progressively faster, 3:08, still too hot, don't die, 3:07 still too fast, but you've got a good workout going, 3:06....holy shit" i had been injured all indoor season so this came as a slight surprise

I didn't hear this personally, but a runner once told me that his coach yelled this at him during a poor xc race: "If you don't pick it up, I'm going to kill you and your f------- family!"

"Cheat on your girlfriend, NOT on your workout!"

Among the many memorable comments, if not running related:

Athlete: "Coach would you ever have kids?"

Coach: "Kids? I can't even stand you f-ckers for 2 hours a day!"

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(when discussing favorite movies and Star Wars)

Coach: "I hate the f-cking ewoks! How can a bunch of f-ckin teddy bears bring down the evil empire? Thats bull sh-t!"

"Monday... Tuesday... Wednesday.... etc"

while doing some very slow quarters, that was embarassing

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