Roy Keane Inspirational Quote Thread
 

To his old buddy Patrick Vieira in the Highbury tunnel

"If you love Senegal so much, why don't you go ****ing play for them?"

On The Gary/Vieira tunnel incident

"Maybe Gary 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.”

On his tackle on Alf

"I'd waited long enough. I ******* hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you ****. And don't ever stand over me again sneering about fake injuries. And tell your pal [David] Wetherall there's some for him as well. I didn't wait for Mr Elleray to show the red card. I turned and walked to the dressing room. My attitude is an eye for an eye

On the Prawn Sandwich Brigade

“Away from home our fans are fantastic, I’d call them the hardcore fans. But at home they have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches, and they don’t realise what’s going on out on the pitch. I don’t think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell ‘football’, never mind understand it.”

On a Young Rio

"Just because you are paid £120,000-a-week and play well for 20 minutes against Tottenham, you think you are a superstar."

On being punched by Brian Clough

"Cloughie was dead right, absolutely. It was the best thing he ever did for me. It's good to get angry. It's an emotion and part of the game. It's good to go a bit mad but I don't throw teacups around. That's not my style - I'd rather throw punches."

On Mick McCarthy

"Who do you think you are having meetings about me? You were a crap player and you are a crap manager. The only reason I have any dealings with you is that somehow you are the manager of my country and you're not even Irish you English *******!"

On Feminism

“If they don’t want to come because their wife wants to go shopping in London, it’s a sad state of affairs. To me, that player is weak because his wife runs his life.”

On Big Jack Run In

Even as a teenager, Keane is not afraid to stand up to authority. Following a friendly against the United States in Boston in 1991, the Republic of Ireland team are allowed a night out. The next morning, with departure set for 7.30am, the team are kept waiting until 8am by Keane. A furious Jack Charlton says: "Nineteen years old, your first trip, do you have any idea how long we have been waiting?" Keane replies, without a hint of fear: "I didn't ask you to wait, did I?"

On Older Rio not being able to say goodbye
"He didn't have a chance to say goodbye? You can say goodbye on Twitter, can't you?"

Lee Sharpe on nights out with Roy

Anyone who has ever played football, or drunk, with Roy Keane has a favourite story, and Lee Sharpe's goes back to the days when his Manchester United team-mate regularly used to punch and puke his way through the city's nightspots. Keane had been knocking back the drink one Saturday night, without any food, and was "absolutely smashed", according to Sharpe, when some Liverpool players walked into the bar.

It was Liverpool's Spice Boys white-suits-for-the-cup-final heyday and Keane started picking an argument with his fellow Republic of Ireland international Phil Babb. Sharpe can remember him shouting (with the expletives removed): "Who the hell do you think you are, Babb?"

John Scales tried to act as peacemaker and walked into another stream of invective. "You, Scales, you're rubbish as well, with your England B cap, you're nowt, rubbish." Then Jamie Redknapp came over, with his London patter and twinkling eyes, trying to smooth things over. "You, Redknapp, are you happy with your Under-21 caps?" Keane spluttered. "What the hell have you done in the game?" On and on it went. "All of which I thought was pretty funny," Sharpe cheerfully remembers

On Arsenal player throwing Wenger in the air

Adrian Charles: Would you like to do that to Sir Alex Ferguson?

Yeah but I wouldn't catch him.

That was funny. :joker: