Top 15 greatest Kevin Keegan quotes

Former England skipper and manager Kevin Keegan has died at the property of 75 pursuing a conflict with signifier 4 cancer.

One of the finest forwards of his generation, Keegan enjoyed a glittering playing vocation with Scunthorpe United, Liverpool, Hamburg, Southampton and Newcastle United, winning the Ballon d'Or successful consecutive years and establishing himself arsenic 1 of football's astir charismatic figures.

After hanging up his boots, Keegan moved into management, taking complaint of Newcastle United, Fulham, England and Manchester City during a colourful vocation successful the dugout.

His six-year spell astatine Liverpool remains the defining section of his playing days, yielding 100 goals and a glittering postulation of silverware, including 3 league titles, the European Cup, 2 UEFA Cups and the FA Cup.

Keegan's determination to Hamburg elevated him to adjacent greater heights, arsenic helium lifted the Bundesliga rubric and became 1 of lone a fistful of Englishmen to triumph the Ballon d'Or twice.

Across an outstanding nine career, Keegan scored 204 goals successful 592 appearances, portion helium besides netted 21 times successful 63 England caps and captained the Three Lions connected 31 occasions.

The erstwhile Newcastle brag besides became a acquainted look successful the tv studio, wherever his colourful property and memorable one-liners often stole the show.

Here, Sports Mole looks backmost astatine 15 of Kevin Keegan's astir unforgettable quotes implicit the years.

Kevin Keegan's geography

15) "Hungary is precise akin to Bulgaria. I cognize they’re antithetic countries."

14) "I came to Nantes 2 years agone and it’s overmuch the aforesaid today, but that it’s wholly different."

13) “Argentina won’t beryllium astatine Euro 2000 due to the fact that they’re from South America.”

Kevin Keegan: Stating the obvious

12) "The 33 oregon 34-year-olds volition beryllium 36 oregon 37 by the clip the adjacent World Cup comes around, if they're not careful."

11) “The substitute is astir to travel connected – he’s a subordinate who was near retired of the starting line-up today.”

Keegan connected players 

10) “I don’t deliberation there’s anyone bigger oregon smaller than Maradona.”

9) “Richard Dunne has ever been successful the framework for me. When helium has been retired of the framework it was due to the fact that helium took himself retired of it for 1 crushed oregon another.”

8) “Gary ever weighed up his options, particularly erstwhile helium had nary choice.”

7) "I had Micah Richards arsenic a subordinate astatine 16 and helium was a antheral then. What is helium now? A bigger man, probably."

Kevin Keegan said astir transportation window 

6) “Well, that’s similar asking maine who is connected my Christmas paper list. I beryllium down with the woman and I accidental ‘Did they nonstop america 1 past twelvemonth oregon this year’, and if they haven’t we rip the sanction up and propulsion it successful the bin. But then, a mates of days aft Christmas the paper mightiness get precocious truthful we bash a paper for them connected the 28th and day it the 22nd and nonstop it disconnected and anticipation they don’t notice…I haven’t a hint what I’m talking about.”

Keegan connected planetary fans 

5) "England person the champion fans successful the world, and Scotland’s fans are second-to-none.”

Keegan connected squad talk: 

4) “The past happening I wrote connected the committee earlier we came retired was: ‘If you spell retired determination and amusement maine that determination and you amusement this assemblage that you privation it more, they’ll beryllium that twelfth antheral for you. They’ll springiness you that other lift.’”

Kevin Keegan connected fitness 

3) “In immoderate ways, cramp is worse than having a breached leg.”

Keegan connected goalkeeper

2) “Goalkeepers aren’t calved contiguous until they’re successful their precocious twenties oregon thirties.”

Keegan connected rant against Man Utd

1) "When you bash that with footballers similar helium said astir Leeds, and erstwhile you bash things similar that astir a antheral similar Stuart Pearce – I’ve kept truly quiet, but I’ll archer you something, helium went down successful my estimation erstwhile helium said that – we person not resorted to that. But I’ll archer ya – you tin archer him present if you’re watching it – we’re inactive warring for this title, and he’s got to spell to Middlesbrough and get something, and… and I archer you honestly, I volition emotion it if we bushed them, emotion it!”