Keshi Quotes

#1. It's always good to have your players with you, it makes you feel great. That is just it. The coach and the players understand one another but people outside don't understand. But it's good to see him, it's good to see all the players.

Stephen Keshi

#2. Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

John Lennon

#3. I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying.

Stephen Keshi

#4. Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#5. If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.

Stephen Keshi

#6. Senzo Meyiwa was just a young kid and was already becoming one of the best goalkeepers in Africa.

Stephen Keshi

#7. My future does not depend on me but on any decision by the Togo federation.

Stephen Keshi

#8. Oh, fuck the paperwork

E.L. James

#9. I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.

Stephen Keshi

#10. Why would you want to bring a foreign coach? Why? If you bring a foreign coach, you might as well bring foreign players, white players to play for Nigeria. If you bring a European coach, he should also bring oyinbo (white) players. That's how it is.

Stephen Keshi

#11. It's not going to determine whether I will remain with Nigeria or not. I don't have a contract and I'm not depending on this match to give me a contract. So please don't think I will die in the Nigeria job.

Stephen Keshi

#12. Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.

Werner Erhard

#13. Who are we to ask God if it is his will.

Stephen Keshi

#14. I want to work for Nigeria, my blood is here. I captained this team for 14 years, and it is my country. But you people think if there is no Super Eagles we won't exist. I came from another country to coach the Super Eagles so don't think if we don't win my career is over, no. It's just starting.

Stephen Keshi

#15. And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. The only walls that talk, are the white ones.

Anthony Liccione

#17. Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.

Henry Spencer

#18. I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered.

Stephen Keshi

#19. Every game is very difficult, no game is easy. All games are hard, but just different. So we just have to get ourselves prepared for every particular match because of the intensity and so on.

Stephen Keshi

#20. You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.

George Saunders

#21. This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That's it. Beginning and end of list, Xbox. You know what she got me? A homemade frame with a picture of us from our first date together. Which was fine. Because I got her an Xbox.

Anthony Jeselnik

#22. Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

Stephen Keshi

#23. Mfon Udoh is a good player and I've had him before I know the quality he has. And I believe this is a lesson that everything is all about time, that everybody's time will come and if you're doing well your time will surely come.

Stephen Keshi

#24. People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

Stephen Keshi