You’ll always find that goalkeepers are a team within the team, and I’ve always had good relationships with the others, which is important because nobody understands the mindset of a goalkeeper like the other goalkeepers.
If you concede a goal, it can be up to seven or eight mistakes leading up to it but, obviously, as a goalkeeper you have to accept it has gone past you.
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.
When you are a goalkeeper, you know the responsibility.
Alisson is an excellent goalkeeper.
I was a goalkeeper at Crewe as a kid but piled on pounds when I stopped training every day.
Especially as a goalkeeper, when you are closed down, you have to make a decision in a split second, and sometimes it is better to make the wrong one rather than wait and see what’s happening.
At Benfica, I started playing because the starting goalkeeper got injured.
The star-jump technique – that is a big part of being a handball goalkeeper, and I brought that move into football. It is a very effective way of saving a chance.
As a goalkeeper, you’ve got to have mental toughness, and that’s one thing I’m good at.
Top of my wishlist is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.
I always wanted to be going out on loan and playing football and maturing as a goalkeeper.
It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.
Spalletti made a difference for me. He gives great importance to the details and, at minimum, wants the goalkeeper to know how to play with the ball at his feet.
I’m going to play with one goalkeeper, obviously, one defender, one midfielder and two attackers, very offensive because we need to score goals.
The role of a goalkeeper in Pep’s team is like the 11th outfield player on the pitch, in terms of the build-up, the pressing. I think it’s more difficult. There is a bigger responsibility because you can’t afford to make any mistakes. If you do, it probably ends in an opposition goal.
Paolo Maldini never won, but he was the best defender in the world. Gianluigi Buffon never won; he was the best goalkeeper in the world for many years. But this is the story of the Ballon d’Or.
There’s no pressure on a goalkeeper in a penalty shootout. So it’s a nice opportunity for us to have some fun and try and make some saves.
The team I used to play for as a kid, we changed goalkeeper every game. Finally I went in goal and we won – and they made me stay there.
I have always seen myself as a Real Madrid goalkeeper and have never doubted my ability.
You have to win the title with a strong team and a strong defence, but I don’t only like to talk about the four defenders and the goalkeeper when you concede goals. It’s about the team.
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.
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what’s going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
Swansea invested in me. They took a chance on me because I was a second-choice goalkeeper with not much experience when it comes to Premier League games.
As a goalkeeper, you feel like if you’re treated like adults and have your position explained to you, you respect that. You might not agree with it, but you get on with it.
I have always said that a striker scores a goal but not every goal is scored by a striker. A goalkeeper can make a mistake which is a goal, but every goal still goes past him and you have to accept that.
Of course you think about the goalkeeper you are facing before a game. You have to prepare yourself for the game and think about the weakness of the players you are up against.
Normally, a goalkeeper has to be a perfect man. All my mistakes are visible so I have to keep my concentration all the time.
As a goalkeeper, you have so much time back there where you’re alone, and you’re talking to yourself in your head.
I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.
Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.
As a goalkeeper if you concede two goals at the end of the game you never can be happy.
