Kevin Keegan Quotes

“Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.”

— Kevin Keegan

“'What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.”

— Kevin Keegan

“Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion.”

— Kevin Keegan

“That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.”

— 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

“Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.”

— 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

“It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.”

— Kevin Keegan

“A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.”

— 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 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'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

“Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength.”

— Kevin Keegan

“At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?”

— Kevin Keegan

“Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent.”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

“Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.”

— Kevin Keegan

“Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is ...”

— Kevin Keegan

Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders

— Kevin Keegan

“It is a lot harder when you are 4-1 down than when you are 4-1 up.”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

“The ref was vertically 15 yards away.”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

“Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.”

— Kevin Keegan

“I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.”

— 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

“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

“Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose.”

— Kevin Keegan

“I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.”

— Kevin Keegan

“Football's always easier when you've got the ball.”

— Kevin Keegan

“I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really.”

— Kevin Keegan

“I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is.”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

“My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.”

— Kevin Keegan

“Nicolas Anelka left Arsenal for £23 million and they built a training ground on him.”

— Kevin Keegan

“Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.”

— 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

“I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.”

— 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

“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 trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem ...”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

It never rains in Manchester, but it pours

— Kevin Keegan

“Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that”

— Kevin Keegan

“England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.”

— Kevin Keegan

“If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

“Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong”

— 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