Top 60 Keeper Quotes

I had a great life even before ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter’ took off. I really enjoy teaching.

The secret at the heart of ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter’ is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.

As a kid, I was more scared of the supernatural stuff and ghosts and goblins and the Crypt Keeper from ‘Tales from the Crypt.’ I was always scared he would chase me up the stairs, as a kid.

My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there’s a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento… and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920’s and 1930’s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother’s keeper.

I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.

I am old enough to think the word ‘journalist’ is not all that noble a designation. Journalist – that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases – was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer – once the ambition of every journalist – was to be the greater truth teller.

I am a lucky boy. Being a keeper is something in me and which I enjoy doing.

Shoot-outs are always challenging, but as the keeper, I like to think that I enjoy them because there is no pressure on me.

There were periods when I was first-choice keeper and was starting to consolidate my position when out of the blue I got injured. It happened a few times and it really unsettled me.

The labor movement is our brother’s keeper! The labor movement is our sister’s keeper!

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn’t get his ideas from other people all around him.

When I am No. 2, and I am working as hard as I can, then quite often the keeper ahead starts to raise his game even more.

It’s hard to get a chance in the Premier League for an English keeper.

After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for ‘Keeper,’ and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,’ even in hardcover.

I would back myself against any keeper in the world.

For me to pretend I’m the keeper of the small town mentality or that’s all I’m interested in is wrong.

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I’d lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out – thinking, ‘Oh yeah, I’d love to be a third-choice keeper’ – but your situation changes as your career goes on.

I turned goalkeeper. My father had been one and we had a goal in the back garden. He’d taught me a bit about it so I thought I’d give it a go. I didn’t really know whether it was going to be a good choice or a bad one but I joined a small local team as a keeper and it turned out to be a really good decision.

I don’t worry about being the best keeper in the tournament. I just focus on being the best I possibly can for myself and for the team.

Buffon may be a bit smaller, but he has everything that you want from a great goalkeeper. He relays his confidence to his defence, and they feel that they have a great keeper behind them. Everybody can make mistakes, but his consistency level is amazing. You never see him have a bad game.

I love ‘Memory Keeper’s Daughter,’ but in some ways I think ‘The Lake of Dreams’ is a stronger book. I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That’s all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it.

I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.

After ‘Memory Keeper’s Daughter,’ it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

England has always been famous for great goalkeepers, before I came. We had good goalkeepers, but we didn’t have the big world-class ‘keeper, maybe.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.

My dream is to play for Arsenal, I’ve always said that and I believe I have everything that a keeper needs to play for Arsenal.

I’m the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest… and I don’t want the world to forget that.

I don’t keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I’ll send emails to friends, and that’s a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I’ve never been a journal keeper.

As a keeper, you have to understand that your job is black and white: you make a save, or you don’t; you can be the hero – or the goat.

I used to dream about taking the ball ’round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

Absolutely, Dhoni inspires me. He does it for wicket-keeping and batting both. He is a great keeper. I idolise him. The way he finishes an innings I would like to do the same for Pakistan too.

I could play anywhere. I played everywhere on the pitch for United, apart from No. 9 or keeper.

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.’

When I first arrived at Leatherhead, I banned our keeper from kicking it long.

If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Don’t be a keeper.

Oh, I think I’d be a lighthouse keeper. I was living on my own for a lot through COVID, and I think I was quite good at it.

I would never want a guy who is not a natural keeper.

I remember being coached at Liverpool, and there was another kid called Toni Silva, and they said, ‘You know, instead of blasting the ball, and it goes in, do like Toni does: pass it around the keeper.’

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

I consider myself a very secure and calm keeper.

My first Premier League goal against Palace, I caught it on the bounce and reversed it across the ‘keeper.

If I have a keeper who can play like a central midfielder, then I have 11 players rather than 10. Ive got a deep sweeper.

Of course, getting to be No. 1 keeper in the world is a tough ask because there are loads of goalkeepers out there and some very good ones, too. But I always try to give my very best to reach that standard.

You can score against any ‘keeper, no goalkeeper is a superman.

I know a lot of people say why rush to get married. But he’s definitely the one and definitely a keeper.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people’s agenda.

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

I have confidence in myself, which is vital to be a Barca keeper.

Every goalkeeper has their own strong points and qualities. What I like to do is focus on every keeper. You can pick bits out of every keeper where they are particularly strong, and you can learn from things like that.

I wouldn’t dare compare myself to Buffon, not as a man and not as a keeper.

I generally try to bowl one-on-one with the ‘keeper and bowl all the deliveries in my arsenal so that he can have a good look.

I applaud President Obama for launching his ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

It’s not the mistake that’s important; it’s how you recover from it. If you recover instantly, in that second, it’s gone from your mind. You play on and don’t make the next mistake, and that’s the sign of a top keeper. Joe Hart certainly is one of those guys.

To me, as a keeper, you don’t learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don’t learn from eating the organic lunches at the buffet, you know what I mean? You can only learn from experience.