Marc-Andre ter Stegen Quotes

The players do their thing on the pitch, and there's a lot of young women or former players that want to coach.

At Maccabi, I played with a team that scored many goals and I was the dominant player, but that's not the case with Israel.

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.

In football, you just have to develop yourself.

At seven, I played centre-back. When you're so young, though, it's more to enjoy the training and to get a feel for the game. It's not heavy on tactics of a position. We were playing on a half pitch, seven against seven or eight against eight, so they say you're a centre-back, but it's not like the real definition.

My dad produces good footballers.

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.

I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.

I enjoy teaching football.

I enjoy playing against big, top strikers.

I was full of confidence in myself that I would reach the top or be a professional player as a midfielder.

I started off as a right-winger, but my coaches pushed me further and further back. So much so that I ended up in defence, because I wasn't good with my hands and there was nowhere else to go! So they put me there and that's when I found my position.

I wanted to play running back, but they would never put me at running back. I started loving receiver and as I kept growing older, we kept throwing the ball more and I kept liking it more and more. It's something I've played all my life. It's something I've gotten better at each year.

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.

If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.

I can win the ball. I can clear the ball.