“That's an exceptional Tyrone side, great pace, great support between the players. We didn't play too badly, but the fact we weren't in the heat of battle as often as they were told against us.”
“We turned over ball a few times which cost us scores, but the goal gave them the momentum that we could never quite get back, ... A seriously important moment.”
“We did our best in training to recreate that sense of intensity, but you couldn't replicate the battle out there, nor the ones that Tyrone had already been through against Armagh and Dublin.”
“When a team gets to a final, victory is more important than performance, ... But we want to extend the Kerry tradition of playing quality football and winning with style.”
“I think it???s clear that there is an obvious difference between colleges football and inter-county football, and Cork will certainly be a far tougher test than what we have met so far, even a good deal tougher than Waterford.”
“It's just like any sport or any skill - once you've been in the business a while, you've gone to the same range doing the same skill over and over, they grow stale.”
