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Jack Gibson Quotes

1929–2008

Jack Gibson, OAM (27 February 1929 – 9 May 2008) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He is best remembered as a coach who introduced new coaching and training methods in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

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15 quotes

There's always free cheese in a mousetrap.

He is about as big as Clive Churchill was when he played and he owns an ugly dog.

They all seem to limp a little extra when they are replaced.

There is nothing in the contract that says a football coach has to be sane or a good loser.

The use of video evidence is not always conclusive, but it sure beats the memory bank of most witnesses.

I think he must have an egg-timer - every four minutes, he blows the whistle.

That guy is so quick, he can switch off the light and get into bed before the room is dark.

In football, if you are standing still, you're going backwards fast.

Talent is secondary to whether players are confident.

Waiting for Cronulla to win a premiership is like leaving the porch lamp on for Harold Holt.

The big test in football is how a captain leads under conditions of adversity.

Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead!

They'd boo Santa Claus, this mob.

One of his most famous lines.

To win a championship, you've got to have a nucleus of five or six real tough, hard competitors. To win anything, the team's got to think tough and that infiltrates into the individual. You've got to have a tough leader.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jack Gibson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.