Keane's Quotes

#1. Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

Martin Jol

#2. Roy Keane's like a shark. He has those eyes. You don't know if he is going to buy you a drink or eat you.

Ian Holloway

#3. When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

John B. Keane

#4. Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.

Jack Keane

#5. United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

Roy Keane

#6. You don't have to change yourself at all to be a writer. It's come as you are.

Chris Keane

#7. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Bil Keane

#8. I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

Roy Keane

#9. Who's a good boy," Willa was saying to the dog in a light, silly voice that had the dog panting happily into her face.
"That's right," she cooed, "you are, aren't you? Aren't you a good boy?"
"Well I don't like to brag," Keane said, leaning against the doorjamb. "But I do have my moments.

Jill Shalvis

#10. With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.

Robbie Keane

#11. I was wrong about [Jack] Keane. He is the exception that proves the rule. I was certainly right about the fact that he is a member of the warrior class.

Carly Fiorina

#12. Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

Bil Keane

#13. Only sisters can understand having someone in their life that can berate and terrorize them with love.

Hunter J. Keane

#14. The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

Margaret Keane

#15. In many ways Roy Keane is bigger than One Direction.

Kevin Kilbane

#16. I like to make fun of Jeffy [of Family Circus] the most, because I know the grown-up Jeff Keane personally and enjoy ridiculing him.

Stephan Pastis

#17. For many years, I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

Margaret Keane

#18. In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.

Margaret Keane

#19. People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.

Roy Keane

#20. At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

Robbie Keane

#21. I can't even remember when the Seventies was.

Robbie Keane

#22. In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.

Jack Keane

#23. Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

Molly Keane

#24. People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

Margaret Keane

#25. Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

Bil Keane

#26. I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford.
(on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)

Rio Ferdinand

#27. There's an image of Rapunzel free, flying in the air, as a sunburst, which says so much. This is a girl who has to get out and bless the world.

Glen Keane

#28. I like her. The pixie is going to be my friend. I know it like I know I'm not going to see Mr. Keane today. I will be her friend, while plotting to either betray her if she's untrustworthy for the company, or be betrayed by her if I slip up and she sees thoughts she shouldn't. Best friends.

Kiersten White

#29. I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.

Roy Keane

#30. A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

John B. Keane

#31. When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

Roy Keane

#32. How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.

John B. Keane

#33. Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Bil Keane

#34. I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

Bil Keane

#35. It's always nice to start off with a good result.

Robbie Keane

#36. Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch

Roy Keane

#37. I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

Bil Keane

#38. The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.

Roy Keane

#39. Yesterday was the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is the gift. That's why it's the present.

Bill Keane

#40. Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

Walter Keane

#41. People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?

Roy Keane

#42. Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Margaret Keane

#43. God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

Bil Keane

#44. I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

Margaret Keane

#45. He's skating like he's 36 again.

Mike Keane

#46. For me, drawing is the greatest joy. Animation is never as good as when I'm sitting at that desk drawing. Even when it's up on the screen, it's never as wonderful as those moments when it's drawn, to me.

Glen Keane

#47. He's been like a fresh of breath air.

Roy Keane

#48. I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

Margaret Keane

#49. I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.

David Pleat

#50. Of course,it had to be just a rebound thing. There was no way I was interested in this arrogant, obnoxious jerk. No matter how hot he might be.

Jenna Black

#51. Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.

Jack Keane

#52. We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.

Robbie Keane

#53. I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.

Margaret Keane

#54. People are who they are by the way they react to things.

Glen Keane

#55. If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

Glen Keane

#56. A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

Bil Keane

#57. Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

Bil Keane

#58. People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.

Noel Gallagher

#59. If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

Roy Keane

#60. Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.

Steve Staunton

#61. I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Roy Keane

#62. I hate losing in training, I'm always arguing, having a go at everybody. I take my job very seriously.'

Roy Keane

#63. I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

Bil Keane

#64. Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

Margaret Keane

#65. People don't buy lady art.

Walter Keane

#66. I'm not saying it wouldn't have happened if I'd come to Anfield then (1997), but I always held out hope that I'd come back and this is a real dream come true for me.

Robbie Keane

#67. Patrick Vieira is 6 foot 4, and he starts having a go at Gary Neville, so I said 'come on have a go at me,' that's it.

Roy Keane

#68. Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Bil Keane

#69. I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.

Margaret Keane

#70. Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

Bil Keane

#71. I can't understand why people in Scotland rave about Darren Fletcher.

Roy Keane

#72. As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.

Walter Keane

#73. What then of death? Is not the taps of death but the first call to the reveille of eternal life?"8

Michael Keane

#74. A hundred different scenarios running through my head. How sick does that make me? A broken woman fantasising about how to kill another human being. What has he done to me?

Dawn A. Keane

#75. I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I've ever seen. I don't dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can't find them.

Roy Keane

#76. I'd rather be home alone, painting.

Margaret Keane

#77. A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

Robbie Keane

#78. I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.

Xavi

#79. Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

Glen Keane

#80. If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.

Roy Keane

#81. When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

Bil Keane

#82. We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

Bil Keane

#83. I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it's the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.

Robbie Keane

#84. I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.

Roy Keane

#85. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Roy Keane

#86. It was Tottenham at home. I thought: 'Please don't go on about Tottenham, we all know what Tottenham are about. They are nice and tidy but we'll f****** do them.' Alex came in and said: 'Lads, it's only Tottenham.' And that was it! Brilliant!

Roy Keane

#87. Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

Robbie Keane

#88. OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

Bil Keane

#89. I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

John B. Keane

#90. I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

Robbie Keane

#91. I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called it our triumvirate, John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis, who really understood computer animation but loved and embraced hand drawn, which is Disney's heritage.

Glen Keane

#92. On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Bil Keane

#93. Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.

Ryan Giggs

#94. I find that you're drawn to certain stories, and there's something about fairytales that have deep roots. They connect really deeply to you, and those are the stories that I find myself drawn to. I love characters that believe the impossible is possible.

Glen Keane

#95. Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.

Glen Keane

#96. Knowing the truth about what you believe and longing for the time before you knew it are not mutually exclusive states of being.

Erin Keane

#97. There's a weird thing about me and characters with hair, from Ariel or Pocahontas to Tarzan with his dreadlocks and now Rapunzel ... it's like I'm trying to make up for some loss in my life, I don't know what that is.

Glen Keane

#98. Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind

Roy Keane

#99. I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.

John Musker

#100. Top players don't come much topper than Gerrard and Carragher

Robbie Keane