Why did I choose to be a goalkeeper? I don't know - it is good question. I have asked myself many times when things have not being going well.
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.'
At 14 I was the fastest runner in Denmark. I was nearly a professional goalkeeper. I could have been the rival of Peter Schmeichel.
I'm going to play with one goalkeeper, obviously, one defender, one midfielder and two attackers, very offensive because we need to score goals.
When you are a goalkeeper, you know the responsibility.
Top of my wishlist is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.
You look at some of the top teams in the world that have got the best strikers, and they are looking to buy another top striker. But if you have got a top goalkeeper, you are not often looking to buy another goalkeeper.
I don't know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.
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.
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.
If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
I know I am coming to a big club with a very good goalkeeper. City already have a great goalkeeper in Joe Hart, but I will try and compete for the No. 1 spot.
The goalkeeper is very, very important, as much as a striker. Anyone who wants to win a title has to have a goalkeeper.
When I started, I was a striker for the first few months. Our goalkeeper didn't show up once, and the team was asked who wanted to fill in for him. No-one really wanted to, but I thought it would be an interesting challenge, so I agreed to do it.
I've saved a few penalties; I'm good at them.
As a goalkeeper, you like to be called upon.
My first mind-set when I am out on the field is to defend well and not concede.
If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It's easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.
It's a strange world, the goalkeeping world.
Of course my first goal is to save the balls. This is obviously the most important thing as a goalkeeper.
There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.
I never look at the goalkeeper's eyes.
As far as I am concerned, Donnarumma is one of the most important goalkeepers in the 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.
