Penalty Kick Quotes

I admit to becoming frustrated by the frequency of diving in the Champions League.

On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.

The World Cup is a competition in which everything needs to work to your advantage. Players need to be fit, decisions have to go in your favour, and details such as a red card can cost a team dearly.

I'm proud to have played 14 matches at the World Cup with the number ten shirt and to have scored eight goals.

When you step up and take a penalty, it's 50/50 - but you've got to back yourself.

My best memory was probably scoring a penalty against Manchester United.

In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.

I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.

Some of the games in Spain... we played at the Wanda, which was amazing, but then the next week, they're creating a penalty spot 10 minutes before the game starts.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

As a player, sometimes you expect something to happen every time the ball is in the box. Every time somebody falls down, you get nervous because you have to watch your back because anything can happen.

When I step up to that penalty spot, I know the consequences. They're the same whether I miss the first, second, third - or the 10th - it will be the same.

It's a big moment, a heart-rate moment. It's all in the preparation for me. Watching the various takers, I can prepare as best I can. I can prepare, too, with my own team-mates - they practise, which, in turn, helps me practise trying to save penalties. I want as much confidence as I can in the preparation and then take it from that.

I have a good record in shoot-outs. In such moments, I'm always confident of making at least a couple of stops; I always feel the taker is under more strain. Worrying is the kicker's job, as he's expected to score, while I have nothing to lose.

David Alaba has a very good left foot. He's scored some good goals and free kicks.

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.

Anybody can miss a penalty.

It is always good and important that the strikers score.

I saw that Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more than 360 goals because he has a great right foot, but a left foot just as powerful.

It's like Barcelona who have Messi. He decides games with his attacking play; Oblak resolves them with his saves.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

Ronaldinho takes great free kicks and has scored a lot of nice goals from free play.