Quotes About Soccer

Even in the Belgium team, we get the respect. Teams are not happy when they have to face us.

As Nat and Danny took the kick-off, the ref blew for full time.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

Manchester United is a great club. I am very happy to be here, and because of this, I am happy to be patient.

I always ask Paul Pogba about Manchester United. I think they are a huge club with a really good infrastructure.

Neymar is not that old but he's not my age. Paul Pogba is two years older than me and Paulo Dybala I think is one year older than me.

I enjoy sitting beside Paul Merson every Saturday and listening to his unique pronunciation of foreign names. That really tickles me.

I've saved a few penalties; I'm good at them.

Penalties are part of the game.

A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.

I have had penalties in finals so I have experience.

As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.

My goal is to defend our goal, save shots and not concede goals. But one thing that could happen is to score a goal from my penalty box to the other box directly.

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

As a player, you never want a penalty shoot-out, because it is a lottery to some extent. You'd rather win in 90 minutes.

If I take a penalty, I prefer to take it with my right foot.

Sometimes you'll go up against keepers like Casillas - the 'penalty killer,' as many of us call him. Other times, there's that one defender that, for 90 minutes, just destroys you. There is one in particular who will always stand out in my mind. Nemanja Vidic.

We have always found it easier, and still do, when the opponent plays football as well, when they don't just think in defensive terms, don't just sit inside their penalty box. It's just nicer when the opponent plays football.

My best memory was probably scoring a penalty against Manchester United.

I've always stuck my arms behind my back anyway when trying to block a shot in the penalty area.

I finish the game, and sometimes I don't play very well, and my grandmother calls up to ask why I haven't played well. Instead of being criticised by Pep, it's my grandmother!

Pep Guardiola is one of the most respected managers in the world.

I never lost a game against Bayern Munich until Pep Guardiola arrived. He made them better.

It's always fascinating to watch Pep Guardiola teams.