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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
And he's very cute, very clever, bringing the guys away, sit us down, calm us down,
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
Talk to us maybe individually and then maybe a phone call to say, look lads, this is the greatest chance of your life.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
As an individual we speak to you and then as a group to bring us all in together and sit down and just go through us.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
We're only 70 minutes away now.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
This 70 minutes was repeated.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
Before every game and after every game.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
70 minutes, we're in a final.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
70 minutes, we're in an All-Ireland semi-final.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
70 minutes, we're All-Ireland champions.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
He kept on repeating this time after time.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
So it was after sinking so much into us that we start believing it.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
And of course, as I said, Niamh Fitzpatrick, I have to mention her because she was absolutely wonderful.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
You know, sometimes...
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
Outside of hurling, you might have issues in life, whether it's work or relationships or something like that.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
You know, you go training and sometimes you're not always positive going into training, but you have to do it because you're part of a team.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
But there's also outside issues that gets inside your head.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
And, you know, sometimes you might be up for training, you might be unhappy, you might be, as I say, struggling a little bit.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
But psychology, when it gets inside your head and someone puts their arm around you, you know, stay tight, stay good, stay strong.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
No.
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Wexford's summer of '96 | The Liam Griffin factor, barren years & Croke Park glory
Maybe at first, you know, people say, how can someone come in and tell me how to win when I know I'm a winner?