Pep Talk
"If there's one thing I loathe," the coach said,"That's quitter."
He had good reason to reprimand us at half-time, because the 
score board revealed that we were losing, 46-20. Our lackluster
performance indicated that we had forgotten the rudimentary
aspects of basketball. His caustic words fired us up. We dashed
out, determined to wrest the control of the game from our
rivals.

Crocodile tears--When the football player broke his leg, his 
substitute wept crocodile tears. 
(insincere tears)