After four league games with
Birmingham City,
Coventry-born Quinn was sold to
Second Division Blackpool for £25,000. He scored a total of 47 goals and made 150 first-team starts over five years. Two of those goals were scored against
Chelsea in the
League Cup second round. On 12 August 1995, he opened the scoring in Blackpool's game at
Bristol City after eleven seconds, equalling the club's fastest-ever goal by
Bill Slater at
Stoke City 46 years earlier. These exploits led
West Bromwich Albion to sign Quinn for £500,000. He made his Albion debut in a 1–1 home draw against
Bury on 21 February 1998. He scored twice in a 2–1 win over
Middlesbrough on 4 April 1998, his first goals for the club; however, he found goals hard to come by during his
Baggies career, scoring just ten times in 123 appearances in all competitions. During
2001–02, Quinn was loaned out to
Notts County, but returned to the Hawthorns when a permanent deal could not be agreed. scoring his first and what turned out to be only goal for the club against Brighton on 21 October 2006. On 21 December 2006, a poor start to the season saw him placed on the transfer list alongside
Andy Kirk and
Scott McGleish. In March 2007 Quinn joined
Scunthorpe United on loan for the remainder of the season. He was an unused substitute for
the Iron on several occasions, but did not experience any first-team action. Quinn retired from playing football on 11 September 2007, due to his failure to break back into the Northern Ireland team. ==International career==