Simon Mignolet Quotes

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

Each of the top goalkeepers has a particular quality to teach me. I look at Diego Lopez, Iker Casillas, Victor Valdes, Gianluigi Buffon... they all have tremendous experience and ability, and have spent years proving they are the best.

I trained with some great keepers at college, alongside full-grown men, and it helped me 100%.

I sit next to Drogba in the dressing room. I listen all the time because he gives advice.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.

Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.

Zidane is a Real Madrid legend. He teaches us things in every training session - even just by playing with us.

When you have a year of experience and also the experience of playing in the playoffs, it just makes a world of difference.

I get the job with the 49ers, and I'm four years removed from my high school coaching days, and I'm going to be coaching Joe Montana, and I'm going, 'How do I approach this? How am I going to do this?'

Manager Kit Symons sees our players daily. As a top-flight player not that long ago, Kit knows and feels the game.

I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

As a goalkeeper experience is a massive thing, and there is nothing better than playing games, which thankfully I managed to do at the Olympics.

I had some different positions. At first, I was a forward, and then, step by step, I kept moving back, and now I'm here at the goal. This was my way.

When I first began playing football, I was a striker.

I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players.

At Maccabi, I played with a team that scored many goals and I was the dominant player, but that's not the case with Israel.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

All the way through the youth ranks at Sao Paulo, I've always been the captain.

Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.

Brazil was a very good experience. I learned a lot about how to play football, both technical and physical. There would be a hundred kids of all ages, training and doing classes together.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.