Inspired by this thread, which sparked my memories of my high school basketball team.
We had a coach who wasn’t my dad, but was the dad of another player on the team. He had some token phrases he would throw out with high regularity; the ones that really come to my mind right now are “Why you dancin’? Why you dancin’?” and “Cool it, hot sauce!”, both in reference to what he perceived as too much fancy footwork. I’m sure I’ll remember some more.
So, what token expressions did your coaches (or, actually, anybody else’s coaches) love to lob around?
My junior football (soccer to you Yanks) coach was, like yours (and most, I suspect), the father of one of the players. His most common touchline exhortation (that I remember) was: “Craig, get off your arse!”.
His successor used to expel us from the changing room after the (extremely rudimentary) team-talk with the curious piece of grammar: “Let’s get gone.” More amusing was his assistant, who celebrated wildly, on his own, when it looked like one of our players had beaten the goalie of the other, much better, local boy’s side. The ball hit the post and bounced out :smack: .
Finally, our PE teacher at school used to get annoyed at people pulling up handfuls of grass when we were sat on the field while he was talking. He used to say: “If you’re so keen on trimming the grass, I’ll give you a pair of scissors after school and you can do the whole pitch!”.