Marc-Andre ter Stegen Quotes

You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

It was frustrating at Arsenal, obviously. For a year and a half, it went from bad to worse. I could no longer continue like that. I could not bring myself to spend another year at Arsenal and remain a reserve, even a second reserve.

Whoever is on the bench always says he isn't playing enough. I work hard and try to do my best. And I try to show on the pitch, even when I only get five minutes, that I can do something.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

I feel like, at any given time, if I'm not playing my best football, if I'm not taking coaching points, if I'm not doing things right out there on the field, I feel I can be covered by anyone.

For sure, when you are being beaten by your team-mate, it hurts.

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

I'm never happy with my performance.

I let football drive me crazy. If we lost, I would shut myself away for two or three days, not sleeping, torturing myself about what I did.

I would play like one minute or not even get in at all. I'd see on Twitter - people would say, 'I hate that Grayson Allen guy at the end of the bench.' I'm like, 'What did I do?! I was in the game for 30 seconds.'

It's hard because, throughout your whole career, you're known as the top player, the best on your team, you're playing the most minutes, and then you might not get in the game. You don't know when you're going to get in the game.

Not playing is frustrating; you want to play in every game. But it's the life of a keeper. You'd rather be on the pitch than off.

When I first started playing in a youth football league, I was the worst kid on the team. I quit the first year. And then the next year, I was still the worst kid - I didn't even play.

You can be on a good team and not play at all.

It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.

I don't want to play anymore. I'm tired of football but also tired of people who work in football.

It's tough to be left out. At Chelsea I've probably played 90 per cent of the time. It's not something I handle very well.

That competitive nature comes out when I feel like I'm playing bad and when things aren't going right.

I hate being rejected.

I don't like it if I'm not part of the starting 11.