Roy Keane quotes
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“People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.”
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“Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.”
-- Roy KeaneSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.”
-- Roy KeaneSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being”
-- Roy KeaneSource : Roy Keane, Eamon Dunphy (2002). “Keane: The Autobiography”
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“People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?”
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“If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.”
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“Happiness is not being afraid.”
-- Roy KeaneSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.”
-- Roy KeaneSource : "The Second Half". Book by Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle, 2014.
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“I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.”
-- Roy KeaneSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.”
-- Roy KeaneSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.”
-- Roy KeaneSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.”
-- Roy KeaneSource : "Roy Keane: a history of speaking out", www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2002.
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“I hate losing in training, I'm always arguing, having a go at everybody. I take my job very seriously.'”
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“If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?”
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“Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.”
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“It was Tottenham at home. I thought: 'Please don't go on about Tottenham, we all know what Tottenham are about. They are nice and tidy but we'll f****** do them.' Alex came in and said: 'Lads, it's only Tottenham.' And that was it! Brilliant!”
-- Roy KeaneSource : "Roy Keane says he and Alex Ferguson were on same wavelength at United" by James Riach, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2014.
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“The type of game I play, I'm going to pick injuries and suspensions, unfortunately.”
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“Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.”
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“Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.”
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“I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them.”
-- Roy KeaneSource : "10 quotes from football stars past and present that further define the greatness of Lionel Messi" by Alex Richards, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2017.
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“Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.”
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“Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch”
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“Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.”
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