Roy Keane insists he went onto a pitch to hurt his opponents, not injury them, as he admitted he hasn't regretted anything he's ever done on a football field.
Referring to his challenge on Alfe-Inge Haaland in the Manchester Derby - one of the most infamous football fouls of all time - Keane insists that he never intended to injure the Norwegian star.
However as he opened up on the incident on Sky Bet's Micah and Roy's Road To Wembley series, Keane admitted that he did go out hurt players.
He said: "I've never regretted anything I've done on a football pitch, never.
"I've been sent off and I've let my team down, to me I was in battle with people, I was in the middle of the park.
"Did I go to hurt players? Of course I did, I'd never apologise for that. And people went to hurt me.
"Obviously I'm not going to give it the old 'poor me' one, I never done anything on a football pitch where I went: 'oh my god'.
"And I never, never ever went out to injure a player in my life. Did I go to hurt players? Of course.
"Listen, when you're going for a ball in the middle of the park there's a good chance someone's going to get hurt."
And Keane also opened up on his admiration for Zinedine Zidane as he named him as his toughest opponent he faced during his legendary career.
"Yeah," Keane said when asked if the French legend was his toughest opponent.
"And do you know why? People still to this day don't realise how big he was.
"When I played against him - I'm quite a small guy I'm what, 5' 10? people maybe think I look bigger on the pitch.
"The best thing when I used to play against Zidane, obviously at club level, I played against him for Ireland.
"The advice I would get from my friends in Ireland would be, the technical advice they would give me is, 'just kick him'.
"And I used to say: 'he's 6' 2, he can deal with that'. And I think he had been sent off 8 or 9 times.
"What he was, what I loved about Zidane was, he was nasty."
