Jack Butland Quotes

I think a goalkeeper has to participate at the back of the defence and come off the line to play.

To be a modern goalkeeper, I have to think offensively, to initiate our attacking moves safely and securely.

I've always stuck my arms behind my back anyway when trying to block a shot in the penalty area.

I think it's important to make the simple things right: the easy saves, the catches, commanding the box. On top of that, if you make a super save, then that's great. It's the main base as a goalkeeper.

The goalkeeper position is not an easy one. You can only speak about it if you are a goalkeeper yourself.

What goalkeeper doesn't like a little action?

The quality of goalkeepers is very good in the Premier League - and you have to be good at using your feet.

Big teams want goalkeepers who are not only good on the line but good with their feet as well.

Anyone who wants to be a centre-half would have to say that John Terry is a role model. Every centre-half in the game would agree with that. It is the way he leads the team and the way he reads the game.

The spectacular things come automatically if you're a good goalkeeper, but it's very important that you do all the basics right.

Each of the top goalkeepers has a particular quality to teach me. I look at Diego Lopez, Iker Casillas, Victor Valdes, Gianluigi Buffon... they all have tremendous experience and ability, and have spent years proving they are the best.

Padoin is proving himself to be a great professional. He's tactically intelligent, and it's tough to play in front of the defense.

As a young centre-back at Ajax, I played with Wim Jansen, and of course you learn a huge amount. I made some mistakes, because we Dutchmen want to solve situations by playing football. So we look at the ball, try to judge where it will come.

Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.

To be a Barca goalkeeper, it's not enough to have quality. You have to make decisions and execute them.

Not many know this, but in training sessions, I like to play in the center-back position sometimes. I think I'm good at that position, and my father used to be a central defender. Some people don't realize that if you play in that position, you can better understand how the defender thinks.

Often, there are fallacies when a journalist or a fan and sometimes even a coach who has never been a goalkeeper sees a cross in the six-yard box and says he should come out.

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.

If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.

I've always liked taking the ball out of defence and I will carry on doing that but at the end of the day I'm a defender, and that's what I want to be known as - a defender, getting in the blocks and the headers that people don't recognise I do, the dirty stuff that every defender should do and should be good at.

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.'

I need to keep improving tactically, defensively and offensively for the last pass, the last shot.

At the end of the day, I'm a good defensive football coach.

At Bayern, I was used to coming out of my box to try and clear up dangerous situations. The World Cup was just another platform, so it gave other people the chance to see me who don't watch German football.

The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.