Goalkeeper Quotes

#1. It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

Asmir Begovic

#2. Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

Tim Howard

#3. It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in ... and he's a villain.

Ian Rush

#4. Look at this save. Cat-like, jungle-like, quick. Big puma. Big, beautiful, brave gladiator goalkeeper. Spartacus, I called him. Mix in a bit of octopus. Beautiful.

Ray Hudson

#5. I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.

Terry Venables

#6. I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person

Iker Casillas

#7. What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.

Lev Yashin

#8. The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.

Oliver Kahn

#9. Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

Bjork

#10. You were only a goalkeeper.

Diego Maradona

#11. If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

Mark Lawrenson

#12. When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.

Usain Bolt

#13. 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.

Peter Shilton

#14. My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.

Peter Lindbergh

#15. You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.

Gianluigi Buffon

#16. Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.

Jens Lehmann

#17. I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper.

Thomas Muller

#18. I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara.

Lev Yashin

#19. 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.

Michel Patini

#20. In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.

Orhan Pamuk

#21. Ten years ago I also had a very difficult decision to make when we had (Carlo) Cudicini giving fantastic performances in Chelsea's goal for many years. I had in my hands a 22-year-old goalkeeper I thought could be in Chelsea's goals for years and years and years and this situation is quite similar.

Jose Mourinho

#22. 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.

Roger Federer

#23. Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Tim Howard

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

Johan Cruijff

#25. The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

Eduardo Chillida

#26. Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

Eric Cantona

#27. Don't try to beat the goalkeeper ... Tr y to destroy the goalkeeper.

Steven Gerrard

#28. Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He's magical.

Zinedine Zidane

#29. That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

Clive Tyldesley

#30. For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place

Brad Friedel

#31. I can't fault my players. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did very well.

Frank Rijkaard

#32. Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.

Artur Boruc

#33. AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.

David Bennun

#34. I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.

Hope Solo

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

Hope Solo

#36. For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.

Rory Kinnear

#37. Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

Gary Speed

#38. Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm.

Barry Davies

#39. In a sense it's a one-man show ... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.

John Motson

#40. 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.

George Vecsey

#41. 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.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#42. What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker.

Peter Drury