Just Joe Luba Things

Joey Gerard "Joe" Luba, Wisconsin gym teacher, and a selection of his profound sayings.

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"Stretch so you can feel in it in the heart of your calves!" (upon hearing a comment from @poking-dimples about how calves don't have hearts) "I meant it metamorphically."

Joe Luba, gym class, some time last year in spring

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This is Wisconsin. You only get to vote once.

Joe Luba, May 9, 2014

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Hey hey now, you're getting old / But it's better than turning into mold

Joe Luba, rapping, May 2, 2014

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Joe Luba teaching students at Dr. Jones Elementary School, pictured in the Racine Journal Times, November 26, 2012

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I have about five or six different licenses, also a master’s in exceptional education, and all those processes have just showed I was a good student. I wanted something that truly was a reflection of my skills in the classroom. [...] For example, if a kid’s having trouble throwing a ball, to explain to the kids the different individual steps of throwing a ball: weight transfer, extension of arm, focus on the target.

Joe Luba, quoted in the Racine Journal Times, November 26, 2012

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And then they… they remove the… um… feces from the… uh… no, wait! Not the feces! The fetus!

Joe Luba, attempting to explain abortion, April 17, 2014

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Soccer has really grown in Racine. And it's reflected in the quality of play. There is a lot of home-town competition between the three schools, especially with the kids frequently having played against or with one another on their youth teams.

Joe Luba, quoted in the Racine Journal Times, November 23, 1990

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The Jump's Big 10 (Dec. 8) disses Freddy Adu by saying if he were good, he wouldn't be playing in MLS, despite the fact that Freddy turned down $3m from Man U, a top team in the world's best league. You go, Freddy, and when you lead the U.S. to a World Cup title, you can tell The Mag to 'get a clue about Adu.'

Joe Luba, quoted in ESPN magazine, December 12, 2003

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The last three CDs I listened to in my car were “The Figgerheads [sic]”, “The Sound of Music”, and classical music.

Joe Luba, April 28, 2014 (via reschultzed)

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I’m not gonna shortchange you like that. It would be like taking the weights off one side of the bar.

Joe Luba, when asked to remove the essay requirement from an assignment, April 28, 2014 (via reschultzed)

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World history is important, because without a beginning, there can be no middle, and no end.

Joe Luba, April 28, 2014 (via reschultzed)