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  • It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

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

    Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.50, Random House
  • He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.

  • Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

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

  • 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.

    Source: soccerlens.com
  • Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

    Soccer   Football   Two  
  • Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you've just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper you're the last line of defence. When a goal goes in everyone looks at you, you've got to be able to deal with that. If you make a mistake, it could be a bad mistake, how are you going to recover? Are you going to react positively or are you just going to cave in?

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  • The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

    Space   Joy   Flying  
  • I can't fault my players. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did very well.

    Player   Victory   Faults  
  • 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 hurting anybody, I'm here to either assist or get out of the way

  • Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

    Jobs   Real   Team  
  • Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He's magical.

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

    1977 Professional Foul. See Napoleon 607:68.
  • You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.

  • I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

    Soccer   Player   Tennis  
    CNN interview, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.
  • Neuer is one of the best goalkeepers in history.

  • That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

  • Iker has never stopped being one of the best goalkeepers in the world. For me, Iker is a top goalkeeper and has never not been.

  • I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered.

    Source: host00.soccerladuma.net
  • It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

    Football   League   Doe  
  • Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

  • In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.

    Men   Two   Goalkeepers  
  • Ten years ago I also had a very difficult decision to make when we had (Carlo) Cudicini giving fantastic performances in Chelsea’s goal for many years. I had in my hands a 22-year-old goalkeeper I thought could be in Chelsea’s goals for years and years and years and this situation is quite similar.

    Hands   Years   Giving  
  • I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

    Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. October 06, 2011.
  • If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

  • Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.

    Military   Mistake   Guy  
  • No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

    Sports   Athlete   Player  
    Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.11, Vintage
  • I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

  • I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper.

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