Andre Quinn: ‘I’ve coached six players that had cancer. I’m the seventh’

Andre Quinn spent five years in total with Cavan GAA, three as Head of Athletic Performance and two as Head of Performance. He breaks down some of the mystique around S&C and reveals his cancer journey.

MOVEMBER MARVELS: Cavan players celebrate beating Donegal in the 2020 Ulster final. Pic:  Morgan Treacy, Inpho

Something always has to give. In any field, theory and practice can clash. When that collision comes, theory has to bend. Life has an exasperating ability to get in the way.

In theory, Andre Quinn should never have left a professional sport to work in an amateur one when heaps of the industry were desperate to go the opposite direction. He shouldn’t have recently left a job he enjoyed as much as he did. He shouldn’t have been concerned with training and individual programmes at the same time as he was undergoing cancer treatment and Covid was rampant.