Goalkeepers Quotes · Page 2

We sometimes undervalue the importance of goalkeepers.

— Jamie Carragher

Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.

— Jens Lehmann

Big teams want goalkeepers who are not only good on the line but good with their feet as well.

— Shkodran Mustafi

I always had a concept of watching great players, great goalkeepers.

— Keylor Navas

It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

— Asmir Begovic

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

— Luis Enrique

Ultimately, goalkeepers are on their own. I like the solitude.

— Victor Valdes

I'm not stupid - if you buy one of the world's best goalkeepers, it's not to keep him on the bench.

— Wojciech Szczesny

We don't have a lot of black goalkeepers at the top and people already have in their mind that black goalkeepers are…

— Andre Onana

I'm not on this earth to be a goalie. I'm not here to stop somebody from accomplishing their goals. If you're not…

— Kyle Kinane

For goalkeepers, confidence comes from games and minutes. So whenever someone gives you an opportunity or shows faith in you, it always…

— Iker Casillas

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through…

— Orhan Pamuk

In my opinion, there are fewer and fewer great goalkeepers because, with respect to when I started, they have to do so…

— Gianluigi Buffon

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

— Tom Stoppard

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

— Desmond Tutu

For the life of me, I'll never understand why the teams that have the best defences get criticised. Shouldn't clean sheets be…

— Jamie Carragher

You'll always find that goalkeepers are a team within the team, and I've always had good relationships with the others, which is…

— Wojciech Szczesny

Ten years ago I also had a very difficult decision to make when we had (Carlo) Cudicini giving fantastic performances in Chelsea’s…

— Jose Mourinho

I played in goal for Notts County juniors. I liked that sense that goalkeepers were outsiders, mavericks. But I stopped when I…

— Mathew Horne

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame…

— Roger Federer

When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a…

— Usain Bolt

I don't think there's any reason why girl goalkeepers cannot train alongside the boys in academies. We have done it in the…

— Karen Bardsley

To build more interest in goalkeeping, we have to change how people think and report on goalkeepers. You are not just there…

— Karen Bardsley

I used to go and help coach the younger goalkeepers on Tuesday and Thursday nights for a little bit more money when…

— Aaron Ramsdale

He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.

— Johan Cruijff

With goalkeepers, when a team looks for a keeper, it looks for someone with experience.

— Robert Green

We study the shooters of the opponents - the team, the goalkeeping coach and the other goalkeepers.

— Ederson

Petr Cech is one of the finest goalkeepers I have seen and he has proved that in the Premier League.

— Bruce Grobbelaar

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

— Thibaut Courtois

Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.

— Joe Hart

Thank God Brazilian goalkeepers are now learning to play with their feet, because that was the big problem.

— Cafu

Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He's magical.

— Zinedine Zidane

Senzo Meyiwa was just a young kid and was already becoming one of the best goalkeepers in Africa.

— Stephen Keshi

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

— Bjork

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.

— Mark Lawrenson

I think the idea of crazy goalkeepers is an old thing, really.

— Lukasz Fabianski

In the future, you'll see many more nominations for big awards going to goalkeepers.

— Peter Schmeichel

The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

— Lev Yashin

I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara.

— Lev Yashin

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

— Alex Scott