74 Quotes by Roy Keane

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.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don’t contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.

I don’t think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.

If you love Senegal so much, why don’t you play for them?

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?

They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don’t realise what’s going on out on the pitch.

If it’s not a contract I want then I won’t sign it. That’s not a threat.

He’s been like a fresh of breath air.

Patrick Vieira is 6 foot 4, and he starts having a go at Gary Neville, so I said ‘come on have a go at me,’ that’s it.