Top 60 Kevin Keegan Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Discipline is not only very important, it’s crucial.”

— Kevin Keegan

2. “I know what is around the corner – I just don’t know where the corner is.”

— Kevin Keegan

3. “I’m not disappointed – just disappointed.”

— Kevin Keegan

4. “The Germans only have one player under 22, and he’s 23!”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

6. “Goalkeepers aren’t born today until they’re in their late twenties or thirties.”

— Kevin Keegan

7. “They’re the second best team in the world, and there’s no higher praise than that.”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

11. “I’d love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.”

— Kevin Keegan

12. “It never rains in Manchester, but it pours.”

— Kevin Keegan

13. “Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said ‘goodbye’”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

15. “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

16. “You can’t do better than go away from home and get a draw.”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

18. “Chile have three options – they could win or they could lose.”

— Kevin Keegan

19. “I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it’s much the same today, except that it’s totally different.”

— Kevin Keegan

20. “I don’t think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.”

— Kevin Keegan

21. “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

22. “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

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

— Kevin Keegan

24. “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?”

— Kevin Keegan

25. “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

26. “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

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

— Kevin Keegan

28. “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

29. “What United have got that Chelsea haven’t is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.”

— Kevin Keegan

30. “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

31. “The good news for Nigeria is that they’re two-nil down very early in the game.”

— Kevin Keegan

32. “Nicholas Anelka – 24 years of age but he’s been around a lot longer than that.”

— Kevin Keegan

33. “I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler’s home in Liverpool!”

— Kevin Keegan

34. “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

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

— Kevin Keegan

36. “English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.”

— Kevin Keegan

37. “You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.”

— Kevin Keegan

38. “We don’t get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

40. “England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none.”

— Kevin Keegan

41. “Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.”

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Kevin Keegan

43. “Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders.”

— Kevin Keegan

44. “I’ll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.”

— Kevin Keegan

45. “Jose Enrique’s strength is that he’s very strong.”

— Kevin Keegan

46. “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

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

— Kevin Keegan

48. “The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet.”

— Kevin Keegan

49. “The ref was vertically 15 yards away.”

— Kevin Keegan

50. “Everything I turn up to, I think I’m going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don’t have regrets.”

— Kevin Keegan