Top 100 Keegan's Quotes
#1. Tell me, say it again." Vince took Keegan's hand; the fingers had healed and the nail had grown back.
Sandrine Gasq-Dion
#2. I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!
Kevin Keegan
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong
Kevin Keegan
#7. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.
Marina Keegan
#8. something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.
Marina Keegan
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!
Kevin Keegan
#13. Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.
Kevin Keegan
#14. Josie spoke up as well. "If it's all the same to you, Colonel, I'd feel safer with you." Keegan looked surprised. She'd caught the Colonel that Josie had directed toward Kenslir.
C.E. Martin
#16. Fifty stranded whales are a tangible crisis with a visible solution. There's camaraderie in the process, a Free Willy fantasy, an image of Flipper in everyone's mind. There's nothing romantic about waking up a man on a park bench and making him walk to a shelter.
Marina Keegan
#17. I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.
Keegan-Michael Key
#18. That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't.
Claire Keegan
#19. 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.
Kevin Keegan
#20. 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
#21. I'm still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won't have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it's about the money. It's a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor.
Marina Keegan
#22. They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.
Kevin Keegan
#23. Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.
Kevin Keegan
#24. I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem ...
Kevin Keegan
#25. 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
#26. I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.
Keegan-Michael Key
#27. He's not fit to lace my boots as a player.
(on Kevin Keegan)
George Best
#28. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.
Claire Keegan
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.
Kevin Keegan
#32. 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
#33. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores.
Claire Keegan
#34. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious.
Marina Keegan
#35. 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.
Marina Keegan
#36. What bothers me is this idea of validation, of rationalization. The notion that some of us (regardless of what we tell ourselves) are doing this because we are not sure what else to do and it's easy to apply to and it will pay us decently and it will make us feel like we're still successful.
Marina Keegan
#37. 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
#38. Football's always easier when you've got the ball.
Kevin Keegan
#39. It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.
Kevin Keegan
#40. 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
#41. We're our own hardest critics and it's easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating.
Marina Keegan
#42. It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.
Claire Keegan
#43. It's such an advantage to be able to hit short irons low on command. When it's windy, you'll hit more greens. But low shots are a great strategy in calm conditions, too: The less time the ball hangs in the air, the less time it has to stray off line from the flagstick.
Keegan Bradley
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.
John Keegan
#47. [Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.
Keegan-Michael Key
#48. I have seen too many young writers give up because they couldn't handle the repeated failures their profession threw at them. They had talent, but they lacked determination and resilience. Marina had all three, and that's why I am certain she would have succeeded.
Marina Keegan
#49. If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to
Kevin Keegan
#50. It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.
John Keegan
#51. Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.
Keegan-Michael Key
#52. My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.
Simon Hoggart
#53. Sorry, I don't eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle.
Keegan Allen
#54. The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
John Keegan
#55. I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.
Marina Keegan
#56. Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be
massive influences
Kevin Keegan
#57. So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.
Marina Keegan
#58. I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.
Kevin Keegan
#59. My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
Kevin Keegan
#60. You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.
Keegan-Michael Key
#61. But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.
Keegan Allen
#62. Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
Kevin Keegan
#63. Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion.
Kevin Keegan
#65. People look at me weird because I'm a Howard Stern fan, but he's very misunderstood. It's the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament - just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.
Keegan Bradley
#66. 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
#67. Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.
Keegan-Michael Key
#68. Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.
Kevin Keegan
#69. Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.
Kevin Keegan
#71. Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial.
Kevin Keegan
#72. Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength.
Kevin Keegan
#73. The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.
Keegan Bradley
#74. 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
#75. I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.
Keegan Bradley
#76. If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
John Keegan
#77. Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that
Kevin Keegan
#78. For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.
Keegan-Michael Key
#79. What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.
Kevin Keegan
#80. I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl.
Keegan Allen
#81. 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
#82. I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."
Keegan-Michael Key
#83. I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting.
Marina Keegan
#84. Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.
Marina Keegan
#85. You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.
Kevin Keegan
#86. Brian's death was the clearest and most horrifying example of my terrific obsession with the unattainable. Alive, his biggest flaw was most likely that he liked me. Dead, his perfections were clearer.
Marina Keegan
#87. I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.
Keegan-Michael Key
#88. I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys.
Keegan Bradley
#89. You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw.
Kevin Keegan
#90. Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!
Keegan Allen
#91. so many emotions cascaded through me.
I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I was confused. I was conflicted. I was enraptured. I was hurt. I was traumatised. I was in heat. I was spellbound.
I was so many things that I didn't know that the hell I was anymore!
"homecoming!
Keegan Kennedy
#92. 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
#93. It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.
Luis Suarez
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. ...You would be 'my boy', belonging to me alone, and I'd be faithful to you."
"Homecoming
Keegan Kennedy
#97. Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.
Kevin Keegan
#98. I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.
Keegan Bradley
#99. I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
John Keegan
#100. Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.
Keegan Bradley
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