Larry O'Gorman

Every game before I play it, I go down there for an hour or two just to get my head right the night before.

Going through, you know, the player that you want to mark, whether it's DJ Carey or John Troy or whoever you're marking.

You know, you're going through these things in your head and you're just trying to get that out of your system.

You know, the negative stuff that might be lying in there, you have to get rid of that and fill it with positivity.

And that all, as I said, that comes down from the sports psychologist and Liam Griffin himself to try and get rid of that and put all positives in and take away the negatives.

So you're more confident

going into the game and you know people often say how do you hurl with a smile on your face I used to always just smile why not it's a sport we don't get paid for it it's a hobby but it's great to be able to do it and just go and enjoy it and I always tell that to kids and whatever the whole lot but you're right I'd say the last week beforehand

When the media start coming in and focusing in on us, you know, naturally you have to face the media.

And Limerick, you know, had lost in 94 as well.

So they were quite hurt from what happened to them against Offaly, naturally.

And there were favourites coming into it as well.

You know, Wexford's journey was sweet up to the All-Ireland final.

But some people outside of Wexford didn't really give us much of a chance.

But inside...

from the people, the supporters, and from within the camp, we were very confident of what we could achieve.

But you have to prove it on the day.

I was down actually in the handball alley for about an hour and a half.

just hurling away and there was a lovely old man there, Darren Sands' father, Sean, I think his name was, and he used to sit in the little doorway of the old outdoor handball alley and he said, well, Larry, what do you think?

I said, I think we're going to have to win it, Sean, you know, looking forward to it and just hurling the ball, being casual about it and, you know, you're distracted, you're away from everything.

You're just here on your own, you're in your own little zone and you're just working through