Quotes About Goalkeepers

#1. No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

Andre Agassi

#2. Neuer is one of the best goalkeepers in history.

Pep Guardiola

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

Johan Cruijff

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

Steven Gerrard

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

Zinedine Zidane

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

Clive Tyldesley

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

Brad Friedel

#8. 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

#9. Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.

Kevin Keegan

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

Gary Speed

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

Barry Davies

#12. Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

Pete Gill

#13. 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

#14. There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.

Lev Yashin

#15. 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

#16. How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Desmond Tutu

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

Peter Drury

#18. I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered.

Stephen Keshi

#19. 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

#20. Some goalkeepers are really sexy with their feet. I have a little sexiness with my feet, but I don't like to bring it out.

Tim Howard

#21. Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity.

Oliver Kahn

#22. Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

Tom Stoppard

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

Iker Casillas

#24. The danger all goalkeepers face is thinking too much, that the nature of their position gives them time to dwell on doubts.

Jonathan Wilson

#25. You were only a goalkeeper.

Diego Maradona

#26. There are very few young goalkeepers who play at the top level. Most goalkeepers figure it out as time goes on.

Tim Howard

#27. Senzo Meyiwa was just a young kid and was already becoming one of the best goalkeepers in Africa.

Stephen Keshi

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

Jens Lehmann

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

Thomas Muller

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

Lev Yashin