Despite bagging a first Celtic Cross from last July, Diarmuid O'Connor reminds us why Kerry's boys of summer are far from sated in terms of lifting the Sam Maguire Cup.
Moments after the Kingdom's 12-point demolition of a ragged Tyrone late on Saturday afternoon, man of the match O'Connor was grabbed for a snap TV interview.
"Any time you beat Tyrone is a good day," he said. "The hunger is always there in Kerry."
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Three quarters of an hour later, O'Connor stops in the tunnel outside the team dressing-room to elaborate.
For many players, one All-Ireland is enough. For plenty, it is more than enough. In Kerry, however, it is just the conversation starter. O'Connor can feel the desire for more success pulsing through Jack O'Connor's panel.
"Oh yeah, absolutely," said the midfielder. "Absolutely. There's no question about that.
"Sure you see fellas walking down the street in Kerry with six or seven All-Irelands and nobody bats an eyelid. So there has to be hunger in Kerry."
The men in green and gold played like they had a point to prove to themselves in Saturday's quarter-final.
And they did, not just for the manner of the defeat to Tyrone in the 2019 All-Ireland semi-final, but for the fact that they had lost in their last three meetings with the Red Hands over league and championship.
The feeling was that Kerry would have to deal with their mental demons for this latest encounter. That wasn't the case, the way O'Connor recalls his gut reaction as the draw was made last Monday morning.
"I was looking forward to it," he smiled. "I was in the car listening to Radio 1 when I heard it and was pretty excited.
"We grew up on a diet of watching Kerry-Tyrone games, not always getting the better of them but hugely excited for it. And it was a great game for us."
It is a fixture that always focuses minds in the Kingdom. "It does, yeah," O'Connor said. "We lost to them in the League in Omagh this year and we lost in Killarney as well last year.
"So we looked back on a few games that we had to put right, yeah."
It helped that Tyrone didn't show up - not beyond the 21st minute, anyway, when Ruairi Canavan's point brought the sides level at six points apiece after Kerry had made the early running.
What was damning for Brian Dooher and Feargal Logan's charges was that it took 57 minutes for David Clifford to score a point from play - when Kerry were already nine points to the good and out of sight.
The effects of playing three championship games over as many weekends played a part against a well rested Kerry. But, bar Padraig Hampsey and Conor Meyler's close marking of the Clifford brothers, there was none of Tyrone's traditional fight in evidence.
Kerry led 0-9 to 0-6 at the break. "It was tight enough going in there at half-time, we were only three up and there were things we were happy with and things we weren't happy with but in the second half things opened up a small bit," said O'Connor.
"We got a great impact off the bench and Tyrone had to kind of chase in the end and things opened a small bit more in the end."
The second half was utterly dominated by Kerry as they pulled away and the victory was garnished by two goals. It could have been four or five.
The first was imperiously finished by O'Connor himself as himself and Jack Barry lorded the midfield battle over in-form Conn Kilpatrick and Brian Kennedy.
It was supposed to be the other way around. "Yeah, look, I suppose you wouldn't pay a whole pile of attention to it, to be honest," said O'Connor. "You'd switch off from the media and social media and things.
"So to be honest I didn't really hear it. It's always nice to put in a good performance and if you win around the middle you've a good chance of winning the game."
His overall display provided further evidence he is hitting the heights after a difficult start to the season. "I had a nasty enough ankle injury earlier on in the year, so I was kind of stop-start there at the start but it's well over now," he remarked.
It helps that himself and his Na Gaeil clubmate Barry are so close. "Ah yeah, hugely," nodded O'Connor.
"I know Jack for years, he's only living down the road from me. We've been friends for a long time and it's only natural that helps on the field."
The second goal, scored by Sean O'Shea, was brilliantly created by David Clifford. The Fossa man had a quiet afternoon but sprinkled some stardust with the stunning pass he delivered as Hampsey and Ronan McNamee bore down on him under the Hogan Stand.
"Yeah, I saw it," grinned O'Connor, a Kerry team-mate of Clifford since their Munster and All-Ireland minor winning days. "Sure he does that in training the whole time, it's not big to us!".
Even better from a Kerry point of view, there was a flaw in the system highlighted by O'Connor that his namesake Jack will be sure to zoom in on this week.
"The only thing is that we gave them a lot of scorable frees and that's something we're not very happy with," the 24-year-old pointed out.
"We'll go back into training next week and we're going to have to zone in on that and hopefully put an end to it. We have things to work on so it was by no means perfect."
A good place to be in, so? "I suppose it is, yeah," O'Connor agreed.
"It's always important to have things to work on and whoever we play in two weeks, they're going to be another step up. We'll just have to prepare and get ready for that."
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