Goalkeeper Experience Quotes

The biggest thing I have taken away from these two years at Roma is the fact I grew as a goalkeeper.

For goalkeepers, the better years, they say, come from the age of 27 or 28.

If you look at my professional history as a goalkeeper, I'm not somebody who makes many.

The coach put me in goal, and back then, we were playing on bone-hard ground: red ash; we even trained on black ash, which was worse. That's not easy for a goalkeeper. My mother was always taking out her sewing kit for the countless holes in my training pants. For a long time, I had to buy my own gear.

Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.

It's a good thing to interact with a top goalkeeper who has so much experience in the Premier League.

Whether you play or whether you're on the bench, or however it may be, at some point in your career you will be one of those three roles. You will either be a young, up-and-coming goalkeeper watching the experienced one, you'll either be on the bench or you'll be in goal yourself.

With goalkeepers, when a team looks for a keeper, it looks for someone with experience.

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

There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

The goalkeeper position is not an easy one. You can only speak about it if you are a goalkeeper yourself.

I've seen my share of bad goalkeeping, and I've had my moments. But I've seen some excellent goalkeeping as well.

My dad suggested I change and try to play in goal. I always liked being at the heart of the action, trying to experience different situations and different challenges. One year, I decided to try playing in goal - after that, I was going to go back to playing outfield.

Yes, obviously goalkeepers do the same training sessions and know about things - they are the only ones who can speak about being a goalkeeper because they have done the job and experienced it and know what it is like to make an error and be criticised.

There are very few young goalkeepers who play at the top level. Most goalkeepers figure it out as time goes on.