If you are in the business of harvesting quotes from professional athletes then you’ll have noticed a shift in the landscape in recent years. Its timing roughly can be traced, appropriately enough, to the arrival of the recession – hard on the heels of the 2007 World Cup. There are a lot more heads with recording devices these days, and far fewer players with something worth recording. So here’s a tip: save your energy for someone with something to say; and sit him or her down soon after they have done a short, sharp gym session. That way the endorphins are spinning around their system. And in that buzzed-up state it’s like letting a greyhound out of the traps.
The Leinster wing Luke Fitzgerald is off and running. Contracts – bad and good – injuries, ambitions, opponents, his mental and physical state – he bounces off them all as he races around the track. And the underlying theme of it is that he is only starting his rugby career; the best is yet to come.
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source Sport | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1HlJy36
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