Quinn aims to seize opportunity
February 03, 2012
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After a couple of injury-blighted seasons, the 25-year-old Moortown clubman featured prominently throughout the successful 2012 McKenna Cup campaign and has been rewarded with the No.4 shirt for Saturday evening's Croke Park clash with Kildare (who he played against at the same venue in the 2009 All-Ireland quarter-final).
Speaking in the Irish News, Quinn says: "I've got five games out of five, which I'm pleased with. Since we started back after Christmas, everybody has been training hard, with 39 of a panel.
"From that first training session, everybody has been trying to get a jersey for this first game against Kildare. Anybody who plays gaelic football wants to play in Croke Park.
"I decided that if I can stay injury-free I'm going to try and give it a good push. I had a couple of years there [where] I had a bad back injury and I just wasn't getting the right break at all.
"But thankfully Mickey has been giving me a chance at it and I have been going well in training. I have missed a lot of time but a lot of players go through the same scenario and I don't want to be playing the sympathy card for myself.
"But I have worked hard at it, done work with the physio to try to get back at it.
"Nobody wants to be a passenger in a squad. You want to be playing starting 15 every game and you just want to build on that year in, year out." Tweet
