Words matter. These are the best Goalkeeper Quotes from famous people such as Gianluigi Buffon, Jordan Pickford, Neil Warnock, Manuel Neuer, Hope Solo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Often, there are fallacies when a journalist or a fan and sometimes even a coach who has never been a goalkeeper sees a cross in the six-yard box and says he should come out.
It’s my job to be a goalkeeper and keep the ball out of the net, and that’s what I’ve done. I’ve kept a clean sheet.
Who’s been with me longest? Kevin Blackwell. I signed him as a goalkeeper at Scarborough in ’86 and he’s basically been with me my whole career. He’s been my goalkeeper, reserve goalie, now my assistant manager.
In Germany, Jens Lehmann was a model style for a German goalkeeper.
I couldn’t have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.
It’s very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.
I don’t know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.
I’ve said all along I don’t want to be a number two goalkeeper.
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 goalkeeper’s biggest attribute is to bounce back. If you have support from fans, backroom staff and team-mates to play the next game, it is easy.
I always train as a goalkeeper. I never train outside the goal.
For me, it is a dream come true to play in the Premier League as a No. 1 goalkeeper.
Being the Manchester United goalkeeper is one of the most difficult jobs in football when you look at the size of the club and the goalkeepers who have been here before. There is a lot of pressure on you, but I have worked hard to cope with that.
I try to control my box. I always think the goalkeeper has to be the chief of the box: it’s his area, and he has to defend it.
Petr Cech has been a top keeper in the Premier League for the last 10-12 years. When you’re growing up, you see him making these saves week in, week out. He’s probably been the most consistent goalkeeper in these last 10 years in the Premier League, so you can’t give him too much criticism.
What goalkeeper doesn’t like a little action?
A second-choice goalkeeper can sometimes say: ‘Oh, it’s a lack of games, it’s different when you train compared to when you play.’ But there is no excuse if you do everything right.
It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.
As a goalkeeper, you learn from the guys you work with.
I’m always confident in my ability; you have to be as a goalkeeper.
Pierluigi Gollini is a highly-rated goalkeeper in Italy, he’s young, a good shot-stopper, he comes for crosses, he’s good with his feet.
The fact I have returned to Arsenal so many times is because they continued to believe I could become their No.1 goalkeeper.
Any goalkeeper that’s going to play for Liverpool is going to be looked at and scrutinised – every shot, everything about it is going to be scrutinised.
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.
In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.
I’ve seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I’ve seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.
I consider all aspects of being a goalkeeper as fundamental in the development of the side as a whole.
You look at some of the top teams in the world that have got the best strikers, and they are looking to buy another top striker. But if you have got a top goalkeeper, you are not often looking to buy another goalkeeper.
My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I’m thankful he didn’t.
I think it’s important to make the simple things right: the easy saves, the catches, commanding the box. On top of that, if you make a super save, then that’s great. It’s the main base as a goalkeeper.
I know I am a good goalkeeper, and I’ve shown that a lot.
The goalkeeper is very, very important, as much as a striker. Anyone who wants to win a title has to have a goalkeeper.
It’s one of my stronger points claiming high balls. I’m tall, so that helps me. If you’re a smaller goalkeeper, crosses in England are even harder.
To be a Barca goalkeeper, it’s not enough to have quality. You have to make decisions and execute them.
When a goalkeeper makes a mistake, there is no one to save the goal.
When I was young, I didn’t know who India’s goalkeeper was then.
We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.
Especially for the goalkeeper, you have to feel the confidence of every staff member and the team.
Having grown up in Poland, it is a dream come true for me to be playing every week in the Premier League as the No. 1 goalkeeper.
I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a bowler.
Alisson is a top-class goalkeeper, from what I’ve seen. He performed brilliantly for Roma, and for Brazil as well.
At Benfica, I started playing because the starting goalkeeper got injured.
So being a senior player, being a goalkeeper, being a team member, I think saving the ball is my first main priority.
As a goalkeeper, you have games where you’re really exhausted afterwards, even though you didn’t run as much.
I am a sportsman, not a brand ambassador, besides being the first goalkeeper of Adidas.
I train every day to be the best goalkeeper in the world; that is my aim.
I think a goalkeeper has to participate at the back of the defence and come off the line to play.
If a goalkeeper can save you 15-20 points a season, his value is high. It’s like a striker scoring 20 goals a season.
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.
When I was nine or ten, I had a chat with my coach and I asked if I could play in goal. I started playing as a goalkeeper and it was love at first sight. Only a goalkeeper knows how it is.
I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn’t stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
Every player makes mistakes; every goalkeeper makes mistakes. Every manager does, every broadcaster – every person in life makes mistakes. But for goalkeepers, often when they make a mistake, it leads to a goal.
Beyond remembering me as a good goalkeeper or a bad goalkeeper, I just hope that people remember me for being a good person.
As a goalkeeper it’s so important to be in the right position to come and clear those through balls, to make those right decisions.
When I saw Iker play at the beginning, what most caught my attention is that a goalkeeper of 18 could stand the pressure of the Bernabeu. He had to be very strong.
In the past, I’d felt I didn’t want to try something because I might get shot down for it. I’d tried it with England, and the goalkeeper – I think it was against Poland – saved it. This time, it came off.
If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It’s easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.
If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.
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.
In modern day football, you’ve got to play in different positions. I’ve played in numerous positions, apart from centre-back and goalkeeper, I think.
Normally, a goalkeeper has to be a perfect man. All my mistakes are visible so I have to keep my concentration all the time.
Beyond remembering me as a good goalkeeper or a bad goalkeeper, I just hope that people remember me for being a good person.
Sometimes it’s natural to do the safe pass, the no-frills thing, to pass it back to the goalkeeper. But I want them to do the daring thing.
I want to become the best person as a goalkeeper I can be.
As a goalkeeper, you like to be called upon.
I know I am a good goalkeeper, and I’ve shown that a lot.
The interaction between the goalkeeper and the back four has to be top to compete in the Premier League.
I try not to have nerves. You have to be cold-blooded. You have to think, to look at the goalkeeper: how is he positioned? You study them, you know about them, even if there isn’t always time, even if it’s sometimes intuition. You look to see where he is.
