Simon Mignolet Quotes

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.

What goalkeeper doesn't like a little action?

As a goalkeeper it's so important to be in the right position to come and clear those through balls, to make those right decisions.

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

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

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.

Bravo, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, and Jordi Masip are three goalkeepers of the highest quality.

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

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.

Yes, obviously goalkeepers do the same training sessions and know about things - they are the only ones who can speak about being a goalkeeper because they have done the job and experienced it and know what it is like to make an error and be criticised.

When you are a goalkeeper, you know the responsibility.

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 don't know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.

It is never nice to see keepers make mistakes. All keepers talk about it, and we work very hard not to make those mistakes.

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.'

It's a strange world, the goalkeeping world.

I think, on one end, we need to understand that goalkeeping is an art and is also a very important position to have in your club.

There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.

To build more interest in goalkeeping, we have to change how people think and report on goalkeepers. You are not just there to keep the ball out of the back of the net: you are there to impact the back four, to organise the team, essentially lead from the back. It is a really pivotal position.

You were only a goalkeeper.

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.

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

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

My dad suggested I change and try to play in goal. I always liked being at the heart of the action, trying to experience different situations and different challenges. One year, I decided to try playing in goal - after that, I was going to go back to playing outfield.