Blues Pre-Game Inspirational Speeches

by Brad Lee on Apr 7, 2009 3:50 PM CDT

We've asked a few folks to come in and give the St. Louis Blues some inspiration as the season winds down. And as a special treat, we'll let you inside the dressing room to hear the words for yourself. Before tonight's game against the Phoenix Coyotes, we've asked a high school football coach to speak. Please welcome from Permian High School in Odessa, Texas, coach Gary Gaines.

Does he still have a vial of Angelina's blood around his neck? Yeah, I doubt it.

Well it's real simple: You got three more games and that's it.

Now most of you have been playin' this game all your lives. And you got three more games, possibly until October. That's like a lifetime.

Now, ya'll may not have known me for awhile, but if you had, you would've been hearin' me talk about being perfect. Well I want you to understand somethin'. To me, being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship to yourself and your family and your friends.

Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down, because you told them the truth. And that truth is that you did everything that you could. There wasn't one more thing that you could've done.

Can you live in that moment, as best you can, with clear eyes and love in your heart? With joy in your heart?

If you can do that gentlemen, then you're perfect.

I want you to take a moment. And I want you to look each other in the eyes. I want you to put each other in your hearts forever, because forever's about to happen here in just a few minutes.

I want you to close your eyes, and I want you to think about Erik Johnson, who is your brother. And he would die to be out there on that ice with you tonight. And I want you to put that in your hearts.

Boys, my heart is full. My heart's full.

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I never thought Billy Bob Thorton would be the one firing us up, but....

BLEEEEEEEAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

TIME TO GO COYOTE HUNTING, BOYS!!!!!

Bleed on those mothafuckas, and don’t come home until you’ve got two points.

Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident.

by HuntsvilleBlues on Apr 7, 2009 4:16 PM CDT reply actions

Two points or nothing

That simple, you want the playoffs? You have to bring home some Coyote trophyheads

Baltimore Blast - 5-time MISL champions, ready to make it 6 on 4/11
Let's go Blues!

by UIWWildthing on Apr 7, 2009 4:26 PM CDT reply actions

David backes with another hattrick:

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Apr 7, 2009 4:45 PM CDT up reply actions

I really thought this picture

would have been supplied by spectr17.

SWYD

by gallagher on Apr 7, 2009 5:28 PM CDT up reply actions

Well,

I do quit work two hours earlier than spectr17.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Apr 7, 2009 5:59 PM CDT up reply actions

I got my coyote pics handy

With our backs to the wall we gut the flea bitten Canis Latrans 5-2.

Kicking myself for not going, it’s only a 5 hour drive from SoCal to the Valley of The Sun, PHX.

Oshie and Frenchie combine to taco Jovanovski.

AMAC for 3.

We leave them howling from the beating.

by spectr17 on Apr 7, 2009 8:13 PM CDT up reply actions

just beautiful. i liked today’s pregame speech so much, i posted it on my facebook profile

"You got Osh'd!"
"When you run from the police, you only go to jail tired"

by DontToewsMeBro on Apr 7, 2009 5:01 PM CDT reply actions

nice.

Couple great speeches in that movie.

SWYD

by gallagher on Apr 7, 2009 8:15 PM CDT up reply actions

Couple great ones in that movie, and all great speeches so far in the playoff speech marathon at SLGT. Seriously, great job on the motivational speeches.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige

by Dan. on Apr 7, 2009 8:19 PM CDT up reply actions