Dumbest thing your coach or teammate has said

Our team actually keeps an archive of all the dumb/weird/funny things our coach says.

“Let’s see who’s registered in the 1600m race...Our Lady of Good Counsel? Bishop-Wallace? St. Andrew’s Episcopal? It’s like a War of Religion in the mile!”

“Wow, Benny! You should go out for the musical! Especially with all this free time on your hands after quitting cross country!”

“XC is an animal. But track is a whole other……..beast.”

“We were tickled by this season.”

*Some kids were skipping practice*

"All around me I see the faces of people who had a great workout yesterday, but are not here today"

Went2wrongschool wrote:

Dumbest teammate I ever had once told me the best way to help poor people is to cut taxes for the rich so that they can donate more to charity. Same guy said sunsets are better the farther west you go. He was in the "football frat" at my school and trades commodities now.

I kind of like the sunsets out west.

Speedforce wrote:

"Swishing gatorade around in your mouth gives you 90% of benefits of drinking it"

SlowFatMaster wrote:

Actually, your coach may have been right ... link

Not 90%. Get real. The only reason for the psychological boost is because your body remembers the associated physiological boost from previous times when you actually drank it.

ClassAct wrote:

Ovcrunner wrote:

Nothing they've said, but the dumbest thing from my team is I've had a team mate who has crapped themselves twice during cross country once during indoor and twice during outdoor. I just don't see how that happens.

http://www.ccfa.org/

Yes, it is definitely a lack of intelligence that causes this.

I actually have Crohn's and I've never crapped myself during a race, I came close once though. This guy just never used the restroom before a race and I asked him why and he said he knows he doesn't have to poop and it's just nerves.... And he's been wrong quite a few times and still believes that.

Yelling at us for not having a watch on a day we were doing 150s... its not like you can stop the watch and have any meaning between you 19.2 and 19.8

That steroids don't work. Huh? What?

Revival

"If you're running in college and aren't trying to break 8 flat in the 3K...you're an @$$hole." One among many, gems. Love the guy though.

There may be more to flossing than commonly realized. I've heard some recommend getting a dental cleaning before, for example, heart surgery.

This was said right before a 3 mile high school cross country race:

Coach: "Make sure you are aware of the mile markers on this course.

Nitti: "But coach, where is the 3 mile mark?"

Coach: "That would be the finish line, Mr. Freshman!"

" I definitely didn't screw up the rooming list" - (for the 5th meet in a row)

"4 Events, 4 PR's, can't do much better than that"

"Usain Bolt is not the greatest sprinter of all time"

"I'm not getting a ticket" (comes back to car, it has been booted)