Kilbane's Quotes

#1. Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

Eamon Dunphy

#2. An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

Winston Churchill

#3. Most people don't like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. [A formula for answering controversial letters
without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

H.L. Mencken

#5. I am not a player to have regrets. I should have stayed at certain clubs longer, but I don't regret.

Kevin Kilbane

#6. Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.

George Gershwin

#7. I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

Kevin Kilbane

#8. Kilbane did what he normally does: ran his heart out and gave the ball away a lot.

Johnny Giles

#9. Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.

Kevin Kilbane

#10. Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

Frederick Buechner

#11. We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

John Lydon

#12. Big visions are realized through small steps.

Mike Glenn

#13. If I finish tomorrow and look back on the past years, I' d say, 'that wasn't bad'.

Kevin Kilbane

#14. Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.

Kevin Kilbane

#15. I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

Joy Bryant

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

Kevin Kilbane

#17. The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.

Kevin Kilbane

#18. England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

Kevin Kilbane

#19. There are too many coming from different countries. When we started, foreign players were in the minority. All the best players from Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina are going to England. And Ireland is bound to suffer.

Kevin Kilbane

#20. I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.

Laura Dekker

#21. Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon

Erin Hunter

#22. Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Jasper Fforde

#23. Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#24. If I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth.

Kevin Kilbane

#25. If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

Daniel Kahneman