Goalkeeper Development Quotes

Playing at Birmingham helped me grow as a goalkeeper: it made me better all round, being a regular part of a team.

The biggest thing I have taken away from these two years at Roma is the fact I grew as a goalkeeper.

I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.

Every goalkeeper has their own strong points and qualities. What I like to do is focus on every keeper. You can pick bits out of every keeper where they are particularly strong, and you can learn from things like that.

For goalkeepers, the better years, they say, come from the age of 27 or 28.

I have three goalkeepers who really inspired me. Jens Lehmann was my idol because he played for Schalke and was really progressive in the way he developed the position in Germany. I also have a lot of respect for all that Oliver Kahn achieved with the national team. Outside Germany, I would add that Edwin van der Sar was a big role model.

Over the years I think I have developed a better understanding of being a goalkeeper - and I mean on and off the pitch. I mean how to deal with certain situations, how to prepare myself for games, how to read the game. I think I needed to leave Arsenal to do that.

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

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.

I've crossed every bridge to become a Premier League goalkeeper, I think I'm going in the right direction and I think I'm mature as a goalkeeper.

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

Goalkeeping in women's football is catching up slowly. It is continuing to modernise, improving technically and physically.

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.

There are very few young goalkeepers who play at the top level. Most goalkeepers figure it out as time goes on.

We need to give our goalkeepers the same level of training that we've given to our outfield players.