Kevin Phillips
English football in the late 1990s and early 2000s produced a generation of strikers whose careers spanned the transition from the old First Division to the modern Premier League era. Kevin Phillips, born on 25 July 1973 in Hitchin, emerged from that period as a professional association football player who later moved into coaching.
Phillips was educated at Hitchin Boys' School before pursuing a career in the sport that would define his working life. A United Kingdom citizen who operated within the English-language football world, he built a playing career that eventually gave way to a second occupation as an association football coach. The facts on record do not point to a single defining honor or critical citation that closes his story neatly, but his dual standing as both player and coach marks him as someone whose engagement with the game extended well beyond his years on the pitch. That sustained involvement across two distinct roles within the sport remains the clearest measure of his professional record.
Quotes by Kevin Phillips
That's an end of an era for us. We've relied on them (the vans) for the past 30 years for transportation. Now we'll rely on small school buses for our primary mode of transportation.
It's great to win a state tournament game. I think the toughest game of the state tournament is the first one. Once you get to the next round anything can happen.
It's called 'The Stupidest Rock Tour of the Summer' for a reason. It's really crazy to see how anxious girls are to lick Don Vito's toes and do that kind of nasty stuff. The audience is crazier than these guys are most of the time.
It's a good idea to self-disclose as much as you can in advance and to share things they need to know about you. That is an explicit invitation for them to manage up.
People told me I would have had 2,000 had I had the (3-point) line all four years.
We typically sell it all. We'll run it through at the price we think it will sell and lower it if nobody buys it.
We pretty much got together and jammed. The songwriting process is an equal effort between all the members, even though I write most of the lyrics.