Marc-Andre ter Stegen Quotes

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

I was a goalkeeper at Crewe as a kid but piled on pounds when I stopped training every day.

My run is so weird. That's what I'm most nervous about in this whole ordeal. I'm most nervous about everybody making fun of the way I run. I do, like, karate hands. Instead of running with my hands closed together like a normal person. It's like I'm trying to be aerodynamic or something, so my hands are straight like razors. Karate hands.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

My very first sport was soccer. I used to play in goal, but after I was hit the face with the ball a couple of times, I was done with soccer.

The main thing for me is to consider sport at an equal level as you would consider mathematics or poetry at school. It's another place where you can send your kids; they can have fun, but you can expect them to have good teachers, and you can expect them to progress.

I've been fortunate enough to play at all the age groups but I'm not eligible for them anymore.

When I was five, I joined a club, 'Excelsior', the club of Kralingen, in the first division. I was always training. On a free afternoon, I did individual work with Aad Putters, my youth trainer. Not with the idea growing to be a star, but for fun.

Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.

A lot of the people I know, they don't train like that. They do a lot of quick stuff, just speed drills. But I run long distance. I've always been like that, though, even when I was in high school. That's just how I train myself.

I played three years as a junior.

What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.

Obviously, I couldn't imagine that my career would go so well. When I first started, I wanted to play out of goal. But there was no goalkeeper, and the coach put me in goal.

When I was younger, I initially hated football because they put me on the offensive line because I was the biggest kid.

My game is characterised by consistency, and that is what has brought me to Liverpool and helped me grow and develop. I like to make simple saves. I don't make saves for the camera.

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I train every day to be the best goalkeeper in the world; that is my aim.

For me, growing up, I'd always been a part of team sports, except for when I was boxing.

Kids want to play in goal.

Especially as a goalkeeper, when you are closed down, you have to make a decision in a split second, and sometimes it is better to make the wrong one rather than wait and see what's happening.

Why did I choose to be a goalkeeper? I don't know - it is good question. I have asked myself many times when things have not being going well.

If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that's pretty awesome.