Kevin Keegan Quotes

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

Kevin Keegan

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• Strikes
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• Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Heart
  • She
  • Dream

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Football
  • Player
  • Star

• Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Career
  • Football
  • inspirational

• Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
  • Doing
  • Look

• It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Football
  • Cool
  • Away

• During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Great
  • Business
  • Football

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • College
  • Church
  • Football

• My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Football
  • Never
  • Husband

• I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Player

• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Family
  • Game
  • Career

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Football

• In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Fear
  • Football
  • Expectations

• As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Football
  • Share
  • Street

• Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Know
  • Me
  • Football

• My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Dad

• I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Music
  • Know
  • Football

• I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Football

• I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

  

  Burleigh Grimes
  • Mean
  • Arms
  • Belly

• Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

  

  David Grann
  • Emotional

• As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Relationship
  • Religion
  • Jewish

• I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

  

  Ned Beatty

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

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Football
  • Arms
  • Strikes