Goalkeeper Training Quotes

I train a lot. After training sessions, I like to stay with some balls and some goalkeepers - they help me a lot, too.

Most kids dream of scoring the perfect goal. I've always dreamed of stopping it.

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.

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.

You were only a goalkeeper.

I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.

When you are a goalkeeper, you know the responsibility.

Swansea invested in me. They took a chance on me because I was a second-choice goalkeeper with not much experience when it comes to Premier League games.

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

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.

David Rouse, a goalkeeping scout for Manchester City, came over for maybe a week in October. He was an awesome guy. He showed me what kind of club they were like. We talked about Manchester City. He watched me and watched a game.

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

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

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.

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

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 don't watch goalkeepers, to be honest.

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

There are no good saves, there are only weak shots.

I've always stuck my arms behind my back anyway when trying to block a shot in the penalty area.

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.

Knowing where a team will usually place a penalty can be the difference between winning or losing.

In Germany, Jens Lehmann was a model style for a German goalkeeper.

I've saved a few penalties; I'm good at them.