Kevin Keegan Quotes & Sayings

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is ... — Kevin Keegan

You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw. — Kevin Keegan

They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England. — Kevin Keegan

It never rains in Manchester, but it pours — Kevin Keegan

I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection. — Kevin Keegan

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire. — Kevin Keegan

Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that — Kevin Keegan

Nicolas Anelka left Arsenal for £23 million and they built a training ground on him. — Kevin Keegan

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp? — Kevin Keegan

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that. — Kevin Keegan

I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again. — Kevin Keegan

'What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way. — Kevin Keegan

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave. — Kevin Keegan

Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye' — Kevin Keegan

England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world. — Kevin Keegan

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant. — Kevin Keegan

Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away. — Kevin Keegan

Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on. — Kevin Keegan

What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football. — Kevin Keegan

He's a winner. There's no doubt about that, and it's stating the obvious to say that he's a tremendous talent.
(on David Beckham) — Kevin Keegan

In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg. — Kevin Keegan

Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be
massive influences — Kevin Keegan

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different. — Kevin Keegan

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries. — Kevin Keegan

Football's always easier when you've got the ball. — Kevin Keegan

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms. — Kevin Keegan

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa. — Kevin Keegan

It is a lot harder when you are 4-1 down than when you are 4-1 up. — Kevin Keegan

The ref was vertically 15 yards away. — Kevin Keegan

Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets. — Kevin Keegan

It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney. — Kevin Keegan

If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to — Kevin Keegan

We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating. — Kevin Keegan

They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different — Kevin Keegan

Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger. — Kevin Keegan

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries. — Kevin Keegan

The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game. — Kevin Keegan

I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really. — Kevin Keegan

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably — Kevin Keegan

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat. — Kevin Keegan

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23! — Kevin Keegan

I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time. — Kevin Keegan

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing. — Kevin Keegan

I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish! — Kevin Keegan

Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong — Kevin Keegan

My father was a miner and he worked down a mine. — Kevin Keegan

Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders — Kevin Keegan

The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this
match or lose it. — Kevin Keegan

The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful. — Kevin Keegan

Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties. — Kevin Keegan

I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is. — Kevin Keegan

You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison. — Kevin Keegan

Over the course of a season, you'll get goals that are good disallowed and you'll get disallowed goals that are good. — Kevin Keegan

Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him ... — Kevin Keegan

Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent. — Kevin Keegan

Even though two and two might look like four, it could be three or five. — Kevin Keegan

Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose. — Kevin Keegan

Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion. — Kevin Keegan

I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona. — Kevin Keegan

Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out. — Kevin Keegan

England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none — Kevin Keegan

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong. — Kevin Keegan

A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off. — Kevin Keegan

I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool! — Kevin Keegan

I'm not disappointed - just disappointed. — Kevin Keegan

Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength. — Kevin Keegan

Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America. — Kevin Keegan

I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem ... — Kevin Keegan

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel. — Kevin Keegan

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet — Kevin Keegan

Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose. — Kevin Keegan

Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial. — Kevin Keegan