Shutout Quotes

It doesn't matter how many goals you score; one goal is enough if you don't let one in your net.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

If I'm not going to play a lot I'd like to have a chance to win every time I jump between the pipes.

Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

If we win 1-0, I don't care if the goalkeeper scores.

The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.

It is never good to concede a goal; it is part of our job not to concede, just as it is part of our job to score.

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

Of course you don't want to concede a goal in any game.

As a defender I try to keep clean sheets.

Winning the game is the single most important thing. If you go 0-for-4, but you catch a shutout or a one-run game, and your pitcher goes seven, eight innings, and the closer closes out the game, that's the ultimate satisfaction for a catcher. Much more than going 4-for-4 and losing.

I couldn't care less lots of times about getting scored on late in a game because it would affect my goals-against average or my save percentage.

What interests Chiellini and I is not conceding goals. We're able to create chances and it makes us happy when we take them.

I think if you're not conceding so many goals, it gives you a great platform to win games.

For the life of me, I'll never understand why the teams that have the best defences get criticised. Shouldn't clean sheets be a badge of honour for defenders and goalkeepers?

Goaltending can steal you a series.

At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.

To score three goals and not concede any is always interesting for a coach.

As a defender, we take pride in getting clean sheets.

Sometimes you'll go up against keepers like Casillas - the 'penalty killer,' as many of us call him. Other times, there's that one defender that, for 90 minutes, just destroys you. There is one in particular who will always stand out in my mind. Nemanja Vidic.

If I keep a clean sheet, I have had a good game; it is as simple as that.