Kevin keegan quotes

Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that

I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!

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?

Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion.

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

The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this match or lose it.

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

The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

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

Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?

The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game.

Over the course of a season, you'll get goals that are good disallowed and you'll get disallowed goals that are good.

You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw.

Nicolas Anelka left Arsenal for £23 million and they built a training ground on him.

Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.

I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.

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!

Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'

I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.

Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.

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

Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

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

It never rains in Manchester, but it pours

Even though two and two might look like four, it could be three or five.

England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know theyre different countries.

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

My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.

England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

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

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

I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.

Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.

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

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.

A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.

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

Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent.

I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is.

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.

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

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really.

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

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

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.

It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.

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.

We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.

Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

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)

Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be massive influences

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

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.

What is success? It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.

I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.

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.

I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem.

Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets.

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

If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to

I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.

Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.

Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders

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.