Simon Mignolet Quotes

Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

In my opinion, there are fewer and fewer great goalkeepers because, with respect to when I started, they have to do so much more compared with in the past.

When you are a goalkeeper, you know the responsibility.

If you look at my professional history as a goalkeeper, I'm not somebody who makes many.

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

With goalkeepers, when a team looks for a keeper, it looks for someone with experience.

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.

I think football is evolving, and I think the role of the keeper is becoming more and more important in the game in general.

I've seen my share of bad goalkeeping, and I've had my moments. But I've seen some excellent goalkeeping as well.

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.

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.

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

I trained with some great keepers at college, alongside full-grown men, and it helped me 100%.

I don't think there's any reason why girl goalkeepers cannot train alongside the boys in academies. We have done it in the past. But health and safety have stepped in and stopped us. It may be there were child protection regulations to observe.

I mentioned that Mignolet is bad at coming for crosses and as soon as that went into the newspapers, he got better.

You can't win any trophies unless you've got a top goalkeeper.

It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.

As a goalkeeper, you have games where you're really exhausted afterwards, even though you didn't run as much.

What goalkeeper doesn't like a little action?

I will have to play as a goalkeeper and sometimes like a centre-back and play with my feet. I like that system and I feel comfortable in it.

I always wanted to be going out on loan and playing football and maturing as a goalkeeper.

It's normal that a club like Barcelona need more than one top-level goalkeeper.