I started to play, like all kids do, not as a goalkeeper. I liked scoring goals; in the end, it's all about scoring goals.
I am always loath to assign goalkeepers too much importance, but you have to make an exception for the greats.
You were only a goalkeeper.
A keeper has to adjust his game to the team. If the team moves further up, he has to do the same. It's nothing I've invented.
At Bayern, I was used to coming out of my box to try and clear up dangerous situations. The World Cup was just another platform, so it gave other people the chance to see me who don't watch German football.
You can't win any trophies unless you've got a top goalkeeper.
If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.
I've said all along I don't want to be a number two goalkeeper.
To be a modern goalkeeper, I have to think offensively, to initiate our attacking moves safely and securely.
I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.
As long as I am in the team, it doesn't matter whether I am in goal.
It's very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.
After matches, the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that, as a goalkeeper, I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts.
Goalkeepers don't get second chances, but also, we can win games and be praised, so that's the way it is.
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
If you are fighting at the top in the Premier League then you cannot do that with a dodgy goalkeeper. It is not possible.
I'm not stupid - if you buy one of the world's best goalkeepers, it's not to keep him on the bench.
The goalkeeper is very, very important, as much as a striker. Anyone who wants to win a title has to have a goalkeeper.
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.
I think a goalkeeper has to participate at the back of the defence and come off the line to play.
When the assessment of goalkeepers is made by people who have never actually stood there in a game and experienced it, then it's hard to take it without a large pinch of salt.
In my opinion, there are fewer and fewer great goalkeepers because, with respect to when I started, they have to do so much more compared with in the past.
So long as I keep performing week in, week out for Everton, I will have the chance to stay England number one.
I didn't like to wear the same clothes as everyone else. I wanted to be special, also because I knew I needed something else. I found it more fun to play as a goalkeeper than any other position.
I consider all aspects of being a goalkeeper as fundamental in the development of the side as a whole.
