Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English coach Kevin Keegan.
Last updated on August 26, 2024.
Joseph Kevin Keegan is an English former football player and manager. A forward, he played for several clubs, including Newcastle United, Southampton, Liverpool and Hamburger SV. He went on to manage Newcastle United, Fulham and Manchester City, winning promotion as champions in his first full season at all three clubs. He was also a player for the England national team, which he later managed, and was twice the winner of the Ballon d'Or.
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.
Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion.
I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.
Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets.
That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.
They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England.
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.
Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.
'What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.
English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.
England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.
You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw.
Even though two and two might look like four, it could be three or five.
Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.
You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.
They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.
I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem.
England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none
Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late 20s or 30s and sometimes not even then. Or so it would appear. To me anyway. Don't you think the same?
It never rains in Manchester, but it pours
I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!
Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial.
Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders
My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.
Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him.
Football's always easier when you've got the ball.
In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.
The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game.
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.
The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!
I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably
The ref was vertically 15 yards away.
At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?
Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.
It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.
As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.
Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.
Over the course of a season, you'll get goals that are good disallowed and you'll get disallowed goals that are good.
Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.
Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.
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.
The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet
I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.
I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is.
I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.
We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.
Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.
Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength.
I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.
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
I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.
Nicolas Anelka left Arsenal for £23 million and they built a training ground on him.
Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.
Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.
What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.
A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.
The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this
match or lose it.