Top 60 Simon Mignolet Quotes

In the Premier League you need creative players to open games up.

When I started playing, my parents told me to go to university. They just said choose wisely and find something you can combine with training.

The European nights at Anfield are brilliant.

Not all things always go your way and you have to accept that. That’s what you are going to get as a footballer.

I am my own biggest critic.

I understand how people who don’t play stop doing their work. That is why I push myself every day.

I always prepare myself in the same manner and when the opportunity comes along you have to grasp it.

Momentum is an amazing thing when it is working in your favour.

To be the first Belgian to play for Liverpool is a big thing.

Unfortunately, it’s a part of football that you have to accept the decision of the manager when you’re not playing, no matter how difficult it might be.

Everyone deals with criticism in a different way. Some guys read it, some guys don’t really listen to it, some guys try to stay away from it, some guys get angry about it.

Well, the only pressure is what you put yourself under.

Liverpool stands for unity, Liverpool stands for ‘all together.’

Whether I’m No.2 or No.3 doesn’t matter. Playing time is the most important thing.

I don’t have to prove anything.

As a goalkeeper, you learn from the guys you work with.

Sometimes in England, people look down at the Europa League, but being from the continent, I’ve always realised what an important competition it is.

As a goalkeeper, you are only remembered for your last game.

It’s never nice to sit on the bench. Everybody knows it is not what you want as a professional footballer but it’s about responding and coming back.

The biggest challenge is the fight you have on your own.

You have just got to make sure you do your job in the best possible way.

I don’t want to be a number two, that’s clear. I want to play.

You want to play in the big games, you want to play for a big club and to play with pressure.

I will never give up fighting firstly because that’s not in my character, to just give up.

As a goalkeeper if you concede two goals at the end of the game you never can be happy.

The mental aspect of being a goalkeeper is very important so you have to go into the game with full concentration and confidence. That is a big part of your game and the Premier League is the most demanding league for any goalkeeper.

There are always people you can turn to for help and advice. Former coaches, people I used to play with in Belgium and in England. It is good to have people you can look to for support, but in the end you are out on the pitch on your own and you have to come through it for yourself.

You just have to learn to live with the criticism even if it is unfair. It is a fact of life.

Organising the defence is something that is very important and I try to do my best every single day in training to make sure the lads get the information they need.

Nobody’s perfect and nobody is without mistakes. The only thing you have to make sure of is you keep improving.

I just try to do my job.

I just try to do the things I’m asked to do.

Every day in training, we will try to work to keep improving the things we can do and maintaining the levels we’re at.

It’s only natural that players will want to show a new manager what he can do.

I am used to the competition for places.

I don’t agree that there are big teams and small teams in the Premier League. There are just a lot of good teams.

Every single game you play you learn as a keeper and become a better keeper.

I am not the sort of person who will wake up and go and buy myself a Ferrari.

We are all football players and we are here to do our best. You want to work hard in training and we will see what happens at a weekend.

I’ve said all along I don’t want to be a number two goalkeeper.

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.

I don’t think anyone on the planet doesn’t get angry!

It’s always important to respond after a defeat.

I just try to stay as focused as I always am, relax and make sure I can help the team out whenever I can.

There is no point making ourselves nervous before a match.

We take each game as it comes and just focus on the objective. All we can do is our best.

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 always want to play. But it is about making sure you stay ready.

When I was younger I would play in front of crowds as small as 500 in the second division in Belgium, so I know what that’s like. It might be easier in terms of pressure, but believe me, I would always prefer to be at a packed Anfield playing against Manchester United. That’s why you want to become a footballer.

To score 30 league goals in a season is amazing.

The only thing I can do is show on the pitch what I’m capable of.

I think Eden has the qualities and talent to play in England. On his day, he can make the difference for his team.

Every time you concede a goal, you don’t have to put a hammer to your head.

Whether I play or not, nothing will change my preparation.

You want to play, you don’t want to be on the bench, I’m no different to anyone else in that regard.

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 am not a character who gets carried away with good or bad performances and I won’t get carried away by bigger or lesser critics. It’s the same when you get praise. You can’t get carried away with that.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That’s good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

Everyone remembers the shot you couldn’t stop.

I’m really pleased to have signed with Activate Management and am really looking forward to exploring my commercial opportunities with them around the world.