Goalkeeping Skills Quotes

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

If you have a game where you're under pressure, obviously there are going to be a lot of shots on target, and you're going to make saves, but you can't say you played well in a game where you concede five goals. It's ridiculous.

I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.

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

As a goalkeeper, Van der Sar can do everything. He is very good at coming off his line, and he is also effective as a libero - what they call in England a 'sweeper keeper.'

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

I've likened Mignolet to worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

I know I'm a good goalkeeper.

And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.

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.

If I think I will get the ball, I go out. I can't stop halfway because the goal is empty and the player would have the opportunity to shoot. You make the reaction, and then, of course, you have to be sure to get the ball. But it's years of practice. You can't say from one day to the other, 'Now I will do it,' you know? You have to feel it.

I like to show my ability on the field. I'm not one to show off with words. I'm really looking forward to the chance. I'm a calm goalkeeper, and above all, I've got a real desire to win. When I get on the pitch, I give everything for the team, everything for the shirt.

A keeper can almost never catch my shots.

I was a promising keeper as a kid and, at 15 and 16, was on the books of Crewe Alexandra.

Casillas has an impressive track record at Real Madrid.

It just goes to show how much the women's game has improved over the years: there are some outstanding goalkeepers capable of fantastic reaction saves.

Iker has never stopped being one of the best goalkeepers in the world. For me, Iker is a top goalkeeper and has never not been.

He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.

Over the years I think I have developed a better understanding of being a goalkeeper - and I mean on and off the pitch. I mean how to deal with certain situations, how to prepare myself for games, how to read the game. I think I needed to leave Arsenal to do that.

The spectacular things come automatically if you're a good goalkeeper, but it's very important that you do all the basics right.

The goalkeeper is very, very important, as much as a striker. Anyone who wants to win a title has to have a goalkeeper.

When I started, I was a striker for the first few months. Our goalkeeper didn't show up once, and the team was asked who wanted to fill in for him. No-one really wanted to, but I thought it would be an interesting challenge, so I agreed to do it.

I'm not a keeper who hasn't shown his ability.

If you are making mistakes at centre-back then inevitably that results in an effort on your goal and your goalkeeper has to make a save.

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