Quotes from John B. Keane

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

Where's the point in undergoing a serious operation if you can't boast about it now and then.

I am a man of many in-laws and I would be obliged to concede that only ten per cent or less are troublesome and less than five per cent are truly perverted. Not a bad ratio at all...

Trouble my dear readers is everywhere. We are all in this world to bear our share of it and we must not be surprised when those who inflict it appear suddenly as though out of nowhere.

Should people who fall in love for the first time be made to wear badges? The answer, of course, is yes although I will not go into all the reasons. One or two will suffice. The wearing of a love badge might remind crusty and intolerant old fogies that they too were in love and it might make us all more tolerant of a disorder from which no one at all is immune.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.