Top 10 David Duncan Quotes As Kotoko Coach

After 380 days at the helm of affairs as technical head of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, David Duncan has been shown the exit door.

The Porcupine Warriors says the recent results of the club and the position they currently occupy is ‘unprecedented’, and have asked Coach Duncan to step aside.

In David Duncan’s one-year, two weeks at the head of the club, the former AshGold boss made some interesting comments.

Below are the top ten David Duncan quotes.

1. When the management of Kotoko unveiled him as Didi Dramani’s successor, elated David first words were impressive.

He said: “In all my coaching life; I have served at my father’s hometown, that’s in the Fanti area. My father is a Fanti. I’ve served where I was raised – where I’ve spent virtually all the days of my life; that’s Accra. I’ve served all the two glamorous, traditional or well-known clubs – Olympics and Hearts.

“It would’ve been very criminal not to have served where my mother comes from.”

2. David Duncan has not won a ‘major’ trophy in his coaching career. The media have never lost the opportunity to remind him that he is a ‘failure’ in major competitions.

But to David Duncan, the SWAG Cup and other invitationals are major and his inability to win the League title nor FA Cup despite coming very close does not interrupt his slumber. But you and I know that those titles don’t really count. He was unable to lead Kotoko to the title defence of the league and the FA Cup where he lost 2-1 in the final to Medeama SC. For Duncan, the drought does not really bother him.

“I lose no sleep when people talk about the fact that I haven’t won the league. If you go back into your archives or annals and find the types of cups I have won, [they are] the type of cups that no quarter is asked for and no quarter is given.”

3. David Duncan jubilated down the touchline after Dauda Mohammed hammered in his side’s 3rd goal against Bechem United at Baba Yara Sports Stadium.

It was the first time Duncan got so emotional in that manner. But at the post match meet the press, he was a different person.

When quizzed why he jubilated down the touchline, Duncan replied that it was “spontaneous”.

4. When the media were frustrated in the manner he answered the questions, he blurted out:

“If I talk you [media] people will say I’m talking too much and I have decided to answer your questions in brief you are still complaining that I’m not talking, so what do you want me to do now; I demand some respect from you.”

5. David hit back at journalists when Kotoko were dropped to the relegation zone.

“That’s all you do, you sit down and analyze me without knowing what I am about, so I have decided to leave the analyses to you whilst I continue to do my work.”

6. David war of words with the media seemed to be an unending. Staying:

“If I respect you as a journalist and you do something that I think you didn’t get right that is when I try to discuss with you because for some of you who perhaps do not know my background I have a little bit of journalistic background, not a trained journalistic background but it was like we just performed it without knowing.

7. He also insinuated that no matter how good journalists are, they can never  be coaches.

“I respect journalists but I know we have had quite a number of people not doing things right but I won’t fault them because maybe they choose to do it that way as their style.

8. “If you sit in a studio and you haven’t coached or played football before and you tell me Akowuah should have been here, oh you have said it –no problem but that is why I always say in football you never argue –that is why as long as I remain as a coach I will never go and sit on a radio or TV station as a pundit.

9. “It is as cheap as that but as I always say a log can be in a pool for hundred years with crocodiles but it can never be a crocodile, you can talk about football but you can never sit in the technical area as a coach.”

10. After his final game as head coach against Aduana Stars, David Duncan claim the output of his players was the best he has seen since taking over the job.

“The performance of the boys was great and fantastic. I haven’t seen anything like this before from the Kotoko players ever since I took over the job,”.

Top 10 David Duncan Quotes As Kotoko Coach

Victory Is Ahead, Not Behind!

Victory Is Ahead, Not Behind!

Prayer, A Daily Necessity!

Prayer is very essential for daily triumphs in this world that we live. Once, a friend of a different faith shared this insight with me.

“In this world, whatever you do for a living be it good or evil you ought to be a prayerful person. Because without it, you will not succeed.” 

I pondered over these words for a minute. Knowing his faith, I said in my mind, “I surely need to be more prayer than he is.”

Prayer is essential!

Prayer, A Daily Necessity!

Live Simply ||Motivational|| Dr. Ben Carson

Dr.Ben Carson, retired world renowned neurosurgeon, and Republican Presidential Aspirant wrote this beautiful piece.

Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life, while many people in this world are dreaming of living your life.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of flying. But the pilot on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of returning home. That’s life!! Enjoy yours.

If wealth is the secret to happiness, then the rich should be dancing on the streets. But only the poor kids do that.

If power ensures security, then officials should walk unguarded. But those who live simply, sleep soundly.

If beauty and fame brings ideal relationships, then celebrities should have the best marriages. But those who live simply, walk humbly and love genuinely.

All good will come back to you!

Man asks, “Where was God when Myles Munroe, wife and his associates were killed in a crash?” He answers, “The same place I sat when John the Baptist My servant was beheaded, when Stephen my servant was stoned to death, when Paul my servant was murdered in Rome and when my only Son was brutally crucified, wounded, bruised and killed. I have not moved from my position. I am the same.”

It is not the means of exit from the earth that matters but the destination. Live simply.

It’s all about God!

Live Simply ||Motivational|| Dr. Ben Carson

Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Mahama’s ‘Dead Goat’ Listed in Africa’s Best Quotes

President John Mahama’s infamous “dead goat” comment has been named one of the best African quotes for the year 2015 by the BBC.

 

 

President Mahama made the “dead goat” comment while he was addressing Ghanaians in Botswana in March this year in response to industrial actions in Ghana .

 

 

President Mahama essentially compared himself to a dead goat saying, “I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don’t think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn’t fear the knife because it is dead already. I have a dead-goat syndrome.”

 

 

 

This metaphor from President Mahama elicited lots of discussion and scorn from Ghanaians with many accusing him of failing to empathise with them despite the dire economic crisis they were languishing in.

 

 

Another Ghanaian Anas Aremeyaw Anas, an investigative journalist was also captured in the BBC’s list for comments he made on transparency and development after his judicial corruption exposé.

 

He said, “It’s not about unmasking Anas. It’s about all of us putting our hands together and ensuring we have a better continent. I think that anonymity has always been my secret weapon and I have always used it to the benefit of society.”

Find below the full list of BBC’s best African quotes for 2015:

1. 1. “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody”

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on the day of his historic inauguration in May

 

 

2. “We must change our lawless habits, our attitude to public office and public trust. We must change our unruly behaviour in schools, hospitals, market places, motor parks, on the roads, in homes and offices.

 

“To bring about change, we must change ourselves by being law-abiding citizens”

President Buhari said four months later on Nigeria’s independence day Can Nigerians stop being unruly?

 

3. “The time for vision has come. I request our South African government to help us clean our land of lice. We need to remove all itching bedbugs and lay them bare in the sun.

“We request that all foreigners should take their baggage and be sent back”

South Africa’s Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who denied that his comments in March fuelled xenophobic violenceSouth Africa xenophobia: Africa reacts

 

4. “If I had known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study obviously I wouldn’t have taken it. Nobody in our hunting party knew before or after the name of this lion.”

 

US dentist Walter Palmer, who killed Zimbabwe’s famous Cecil the lion in JulyWhat Cecil the lion means to Zimbabwe

 

 

5. “Dear white people in the fashion world!… Why do I have to bring my own make-up to a professional show when all the other white girls don’t have to do anything but show up.

 

“Don’t try to make me feel bad because I am blue-black – it’s 2015”

South Sudanese model Nykhor Paul, who got more than 20,000 likes on Instagram after she posted the comment in July

 

6. “I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don’t think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn’t fear the knife because it is dead already. I have a dead-goat syndrome”

Ghana’s President John Mahama, being dismissive in March of the protests against his government. The quote has earned him the nickname “The Goat”

 

7. “This is surreal for me, I’m not going to lie, growing up in the dusty streets of South Africa, I never dreamed that I would one day have two things really: An indoor toilet and a job as host of the Daily Show.

“And now I have both, and I’m quite comfortable with one of them”

 

 

8. “I’ve just concluded – since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people and enjoys an attractive countenance – thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington DC, get down on my knee and ask his hand”

 

Zimbabwe’s leader Robert Mugabe, mocking a US Supreme Court decision in June to legalise gay marriage

 

9. “I love my work. But under our constitution, I cannot run again… I actually think I’m a pretty good president – I think if I ran I could win. But I can’t.

 

“When a leader tries to change the rules in the middle of the game just to stay in office, it risks instability and strife – as we’ve seen in Burundi. Nobody should be president for life”

 

US President Barack Obama on his visit to Ethiopia in July What’s Obama visit done for Africa?

10. “We are going to create a special wheelchair for President Mugabe until he rules to 100 years because that is what we want. That is the people’s choice. We want a leader that respects us”

 

11. “The way to treat a boil is to squeeze it out, and I have made it my responsibility to do that. I know squeezing out a boil hurts but unfortunately there are no two ways about it”

 

12. “I organised a meeting in 2005 to solve our family issues. When I asked them about their opinion, they said I should build each family member a house and give each of them a monthly wage… I just want other African families to learn from this”

 

 

 

Togo football star Emmanuel Adebayor, denying in a Facebook post in May claims that he failed to support his family financially

13. “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters.

“Together, we must say no to hatred, no to revenge and no to violence, particularly that violence which is perpetrated in the name of a religion or of God himself. God is peace, God salaam.”

 

Pope Francis on his visit to a mosque in the Central African Republic in NovemberPope of the poor makes big impact in Africa

 

14. “Relaxing your hair was a rite of passage. My hair suffered a lot with those chemicals and I cut it all off and my hair grew and I realised it wasn’t that bad after all”

 

Kenya’s Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o told the BBCBeing African: What does hair have to do with it?

 

15. “A court is the guardian of justice, the cornerstone of a democratic system based on the rule of law. If the state  does not abide by court orders, the democratic edifice will crumble stone-by-stone until it collapses and chaos ensues”

 

 

Judge Dunstan Mlambo, who criticised the South African government for letting Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir leave the country in June despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant Why South Africa let Sudan’s Bashir escape justice

 

 

16. “It’s not about unmasking Anas. It’s about all of us putting our hands together and ensuring we have a better continent. I think that anonymity has always been my secret weapon and I have always used it to the benefit of society”

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citifmonline.com with additional content from BBC

Mahama’s ‘Dead Goat’ Listed in Africa’s Best Quotes