Fitness Quote by Arthur Mathews

Gaelic football is a very Irish sport, which I played.

— Sheamus

You need to be unbelievably fit for Gaelic football.

— Gianluca Vialli

“The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling.”

— Ken Bruen

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

— Martin McGuinness

I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players…

— Patrick Murray

“Fookin' Irish, they're a race of political masochists, they love their fookin' chiefs and princes an' a strong hand belting. It's like the man…

— Gwyneth Jones

“What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?”

— Erin Hart

Irish national teams are usually very physical.

— Timothy Weah

What I love about Irish people is the way we get behind our sportspeople.

— Shane Lowry

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...

— Elizabeth Bowen

“However, football has a life of its own and it seems to outlive us all, even the most influential and historic figures and powerful…

— Brian Belton

The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.

— Dolores O'Riordan