Quotes About Goalkeeper

As a goalkeeper, you have games where you're really exhausted afterwards, even though you didn't run as much.

Freak mistakes happen sometimes as a goalkeeper that if you make them, then it's always going to bite you.

I always wanted to be going out on loan and playing football and maturing as a goalkeeper.

You look at some of the top teams in the world that have got the best strikers, and they are looking to buy another top striker. But if you have got a top goalkeeper, you are not often looking to buy another goalkeeper.

Playing at Birmingham helped me grow as a goalkeeper: it made me better all round, being a regular part of a team.

It is important to have the attitude and self confidence to be Barca's goalkeeper, and that I've got.

It's normal that a club like Barcelona need more than one top-level goalkeeper.

I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.

As a goalkeeper it's so important to be in the right position to come and clear those through balls, to make those right decisions.

I've said all along I don't want to be a number two goalkeeper.

I have always said that a striker scores a goal but not every goal is scored by a striker. A goalkeeper can make a mistake which is a goal, but every goal still goes past him and you have to accept that.

De Gea is a great goalkeeper. He is excellent.

The fact I have returned to Arsenal so many times is because they continued to believe I could become their No.1 goalkeeper.

Since myself and a few others like Pepe Reina, we haven't had a goalkeeper who has commanded his area as well as Alisson.

Neuer is of course the best goalkeeper in the world.

I will have to play as a goalkeeper and sometimes like a centre-back and play with my feet. I like that system and I feel comfortable in it.

Being a father brings with it a lot of responsibilities, just like being a goalkeeper does.

As a goalkeeper if you concede two goals at the end of the game you never can be happy.

If a goalkeeper can save you 15-20 points a season, his value is high. It's like a striker scoring 20 goals a season.

I know I've put myself in a position to develop and grow and become the best goalkeeper and person that I can be.

The best part of a goalkeeper is that when you are the second choice you get to gain a lot of experience by sitting outside and watching.

There's a difference between a young goalkeeper and an experienced goalkeeper. In a pressure situation, an experienced goalkeeper can handle the situation in a calm manner.

The pressure of being a goalkeeper is one of those things that attracts a lot of people to the position, if you don't have that, if you don't enjoy that pressure, I don't think you're suited to playing goalkeeper. It's about being strong mentally, being able to see the difference between making honest mistake and silly mistakes.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.