Highly comical high school athlete cliches

[Gator]

So my writer and myself are talking the other night as he's transcribing his quotes.

"Why do high school girls always talk about coming together as a team?," he asks after covering a girls lacrosse game.

"I guess it's the female version of what boys say, which is always 'Stepping up," I reply.

So then we start talking about some of the funny, ordinary, run-of-the-mill things high school kids say that never seem to get old. It's almost as if they've taken a cliche class.

I think my personal favorite would be when anyone uses the word "just."

"I just wanted to go out there and play good defense," Johnny said.

Really? You didn't want to score any points? You had no desire knock down your free throws? Wierd.

 

[fishhack2009]

"I'm just happy to be here .... hope I can help the ball club."

"We've just got to bring our "A" game every night and if we do that, we'll be fine."

"I just had to throw strikes, and I knew my defense had my back."

 

[Den1983]

"If we continue to get the clutch hits, good defense and strong pitching, we'll be OK."

Really? I'd think you'd win more than your share of games that way. May be just me, though.

 

[albert77]

"We work hard in practice and do what the coaches tell us."

... because if you don't you won't play?

"I just had to be there for my team."

... like you'd be anywhere else?

 

[HanSenSE]

"I gotta give all the credit to my linemen. They really opened up the holes for me."

 

[playthrough]

"We shocked the world"

Yes, a small hamlet in Turkey was hanging on the East Tech-West Tech basketball district semifinal.

 

[lone star scribe]

No lie, a team that dominated the smaller classifications and had won like three state titles in four or five years won its third title in a row. And the players and coaches all said, "Nobody thought we could win!"

Hell, EVERYBODY thought they could win. It would have been a bigger story if, with everybody back, they didn't win. But the "us against the world" mentality is one HS coaches especially love.

 

[mustangj17]

I don't know which one is worse. I gave 100 percent, or I gave 110 percent.

 

[Brian]

"Early in the season, the pitching is ahead of the hitting." - high school baseball position player and coach on a team that is shut out. Uses this line even if season is half over.

 

[expendable]

No lie, a team that dominated the smaller classifications and had won like three state titles in four or five years won its third title in a row. And the players and coaches all said, "Nobody thought we could win!"

Hell, EVERYBODY thought they could win. It would have been a bigger story if, with everybody back, they didn't win. But the "us against the world" mentality is one HS coaches especially love.

This. A thousand times, this.

 

[Monroe Stahr]

"Kids say the darnedest things." -- Art Linkletter

 

[Cosmo]

"Why do high school girls always talk about coming together as a team?,"

Is this a newspaper, or Penthouse letters?

 

[reformedhack]

"Why do high school girls always talk about coming together as a team?,"

Is this a newspaper, or Penthouse letters?

Beat me to it ... damn you.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Suburban school coach talking about inner-city school: "They're so athletic."

 

[Gator]

Every championship has to have the captain spilling the obligatory: "We worked so hard this season."

Well, you should have won if the other team didn't work hard.

 

[apeman33]

"We work hard in practice and do what the coaches tell us."

... because if you don't you won't play?

"I just had to be there for my team."

... like you'd be anywhere else?

Or the flip of that: "My teammates were there for me," which is usually said by the star player who is head and shoulders above his/her teammates because they're aware the teammates will be pissed if they say the truth ("I gotta score 49 points a game because we don't have anyone else who can hit the broad side of a barn").

 

[cyclingwriter]

Suburban school coach talking about inner-city school: "They're so athletic."

Inner-city coach talking about suburban school, "They work very hard and think out there."

 

[Batman]

Every championship has to have the captain spilling the obligatory: "We worked so hard this season."

Well, you should have won if the other team didn't work hard.

But they all work just as hard as the pros.

 

[Bullwinkle]

We knew we'd have our hands full. Yes, we won, but you gotta give credit to the other team. They made things difficult on us, and we made things difficult on ourselves. This game comes down to free throws, that and defense. We defended better than we have all season, but if we are going to win at the end of the game, we have to make our free throws. We have to. So yeah, we have a lot of things we can work on. But we aren't going to look ahead. We have to stay within ourselves and take it one game at a time, well -- no, NO! -- I take that back. We have to take it one practice at a time, one possession at a time, one quarter at a time, one half at a time, one game at a time. That's our motto. That's how we stay focused. We aren't the most skilled team in the world. We aren't going to beat teams because we are more athletic. We have to beat teams with preparation and hard work and by playing as a team.

 

[zimbabwe]

"We wanted it more."



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