Keegan Quotes & Sayings

The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical. — Keegan Bradley

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it. — Alvin Martin

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

We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports? — John 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

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

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. — John Keegan

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

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

The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan — David Coleman

I used to get, like, 2,000 letters a week at one point. — Andrew Keegan

To call Keegan a superstar is stretching a point. — George Best

16. The last paragraphs of individual stories are worth careful examination and rereading. What details does Keegan set up earlier in each piece to make these endings particularly powerful? How does she seal each story while still using a light hand? When does she allow ambiguity? Which ending do you see as most effective, and why? — Marina Keegan

It's very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That's why I'm always paying attention to my setup and takeaway. — Keegan Bradley

Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition. — Keegan Bradley

Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it. — Claire 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

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be. — Claire Keegan

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

I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved. — Marina Keegan

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

In the midst of the battle between rebellion and surrender Bantry was suddenly uncertain what Flynn was starved for. The sensuality of a man's kiss? Or the rich, iron taste of blood? — Mel Keegan

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life. — Marina Keegan

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny. — Keegan-Michael Key

We[with Jordan Peele] wanted to do something with [Barack] Obama because we actually felt that Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place because there's this biracial person who might, you know, have to ride the divide between two different races. — Keegan-Michael Key

My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing [biological mother], my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing and very emotional. — Keegan-Michael Key

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

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

Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean. — Keegan Bradley

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

The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. — Marina Keegan

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. — John Keegan

When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures ... haha ... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool! — Keegan Allen

When you tell a secret - always know it will be told. — Keegan Allen

I figured I wasn't supposed to be capable of that kind of thinking, and I felt like an alien. I feel that a lot, actually, in a lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don't. — Marina Keegan

We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have. — Marina Keegan

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor. — Marina Keegan

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

The sort of lad I am looking for is a kid who will nutmeg Kevin Keegan in training, then step aside him in the corridor — Bob Paisley

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

I know all too well how Dane Bolton ticks," I began incontrovertibly. "he is bossy and domineering. He is what he is, and I wouldn't change a thing about him. Dane is loyal, honest, fiercely protective, loving and completely dedicated to me. A better man has never walked this earth, and I could not imagine my life without him in it. — Keegan Kennedy

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

If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches. — Keegan-Michael Key

When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don't discriminate. — Marina Keegan

Full Circle integrates the indigenous and modern practices, bringing individuals, community and organizations together as indispensable collaborators realizing a co-creative, sustainable and fulfilling future. — Andrew Keegan

The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their martyrdom. — John Keegan

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

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black. — Keegan-Michael Key

Nobody wakes up when they want to. Nobody did all of their reading (except maybe the crazy people who win the prizes...). We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.
We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. — Marina Keegan

... the addiction of self-deprivation ... — Marina Keegan

a part in putting Cosgrove and Keegan dead center of that circle. He had some ideas, yeah, — Nora Roberts

It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy. — Luis Suarez

When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics. — Keegan Bradley

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

I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car. — Keegan Connor Tracy

My father used to tease me at the table by implying that "cold Claire" had brought in the draft. I had three older sisters, all beautiful, and I was always less affected than them, slow to smile. I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting. My sisters forever humiliated me over a moment in fifth grade when I'd opened a present from my grandmother and declared, straight-faced, "I already have this. — Marina Keegan

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

20. The day she graduated from college, Keegan told her mother that she was especially proud of her Yale Daily News article "Even Artichokes Have Doubts," which went on to be adapted for the New York Times and discussed on NPR. When The Opposite of Loneliness was first published in April 2014, columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote, "Keegan was right to prod us all to reflect on what we seek from life, to ask these questions, to recognize the importance of passions as well as paychecks - even if there are no easy answers." As Keegan reminds other young people that "we can do something really cool to this world" (p. 200), what points does she emphasize? What counterarguments might she have considered more specifically? Do you share her concern about where so many top young graduates take their first jobs? Do you worry that you need to compromise your own dreams for practical concerns? Why or why not? — Marina Keegan

My brother laughed at my nostalgia, reminding me that I could still drive the car when I came home. He didn't understand that it wasn't just the driving I'd miss. That it was the tinfoil balls, the New York Times, and the broken speaker; the fingernail marks, the stray cassettes, and the smell of chai. Alone that night and parked in my driveway, I listened to Frank Sinatra with the moon roof slid back. — Marina 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

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually. — Keegan-Michael Key

It is one of the many graveyards which are the Great War's chief heritage. The chronicle of its battles provides the dreariest literature in military history; no brave trumpets sound in memory for the drab millions who plodded to death on the featureless plains of Picardy and Poland; no litanies are sung for the leaders who coaxed them to slaughter. — John Keegan

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

Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear. — John Keegan

We push and shove and wet whales all day, then walk home through town past homeless men curled up on benches - washed up like whales on the curbsides. Pulled outside by the moon and struggling for air among the sewers. They're suffocating too, but there's no town assembly line of food. No palpable urgency, no airlifting plane. — Marina Keegan

Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders — Kevin Keegan

Sometimes, all you can take are memories
But if you're lucky enough to capture the moment,
it lives forever, immortally fixed. — Keegan Allen

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react. — Keegan Bradley

Since the tragedy of Marina's death, her parents have heard from strangers around the globe surprised to find themselves writing to share the impact of "meeting" Marina through her words: Jewish teenagers visiting a series of concentration camps while on "The March of the Living" and finding specific comfort and renewed purpose in her writings; college peers living more mindfully; musicians writing songs inspired by her; older readers making midlife recalibrations and career changes, whether they are returning to school or shifting to a nonprofit or finishing that manuscript; people simply rediscovering a sense of hope. These new life paths all build from Marina's own sense that it's never too late to change, that we must take action, that we are indeed "in this together. — Marina Keegan

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. — John Keegan

As far as other important people go, university president Richard Levin believes "there are many ways to contribute to the well-being of society, and there are many forms of public service." He rejects the notion that "people who choose a business career aren't interested in being public-spirited," asserting that "what's outstanding about Yale graduates is that whatever career they choose, they end up being active participants in the civic life of the communities in which they live. — Marina Keegan

We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff - the flame had broken through the thatched roof and there was a yellow- brown smoke column going up into the air. It didn't hit me all that much then, but when I think of it now - I slaughtered those people. I murdered them. — John Keegan

Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything ...
And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short. — Marina Keegan

Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful. — Marina Keegan

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

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it. — Keegan-Michael Key

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. — John Keegan

The game meandered on and stories began to take over. It was getting late but going to bed meant good-bye so we pushed forward — Marina Keegan

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed? — John Keegan

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. — John Keegan

I'm racist against non-black people. — Keegan-Michael Key

For our purpose, however, what the soldiers did or did not read is irrelevant. For, if soldiers did not learn to fight their battles from reading books, neither is it likely that military historians learned to write their books from watching battles. Battles are extremely confusing; and confronted with the need to make sense of something he does not understand, even the cleverest, indeed preeminently the cleverest man, realizing his need for a language and metaphor he does not possess, will turn to look at what someone else has already made of a similar set of events as a guide for his own pen. — John Keegan

I read somewhere that radio waves just keep traveling outward, flying into the universe with eternal vibrations. Sometime before I die I think I'll find a microphone and climb to the top of a radio tower. I'll take a deep breath and close my eye because it will start to rain right when I reach the top. Hello, I'll say to outer space, this is my card. — Marina Keegan

The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It killed 50 million human beings, left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind or body and materially devastated much of the heartland of civilization. — John Keegan

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy. — Keegan-Michael Key

I'll guard the lady's tent."
Dirk nodded. "I'm certain that you'll protect Lady Shona better than anyone else."
Keegan was a bit ashamed that he'd allowed a lass to ensnare his attention so completely that it was obvious to the chief... and likely everyone else. But, what could he do about it? He'd already tried banishing her from his mind. It didn't work. The more he told himself not to think of her, the more he thought of her. — Vonda Sinclair

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. — John Keegan

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing. — Claire Keegan

If you're like most people, you'll do one thing for two to three years, then something else for two to three years, and then - somewhere in that five- to seven-year distance from Yale - you'll see a need to fully commit to something that's a longer-term project: graduate school, for example, or a job you need to stick with for some real time. The question is: where do you need to be with yourself such that when the time comes to 'cast your whole vote,' you're reasonably confident you're not being either fear-based or ego-driven in your choice . . . that the journey you're on is really yours, and not someone else's? If you think of your first few jobs after Yale in this way - holistically and in terms of your growth as a person rather than as ladder rungs to a specific material outcome - you're less likely to wake up at age forty-five married to a stranger." Yikes! — Marina Keegan

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen. — Keegan Connor Tracy

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

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there. — Keegan-Michael Key

But everything was so instantly, remarkably different. I was shocked. Literally incapable of comprehending what I'd seen. I felt stabbed, like the air was forced out of my chest, and I looked at him aghast, hurt, shut behind walls. It was unfathomable to me. The game didn't matter. The stakes were so low. There was no part of me that would - could - ever consider doing what he did. But it was so easy for him. The easiest thing. And that, I realized, had been there all along. — Marina Keegan

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

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

I miss dreaming forwards," Anna said.
"What?"
"I dream backwards now. You won't believe how backwards you'll dream someday. — Marina Keegan