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Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. -- Steve Carell
Goalies often react quickly to shots with no regard for what might happen to their body because we are trained to stop pucks first and ask questions later. -- Martin Brodeur
Your best penalty killer is your goalie. -- Dave Allison
I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. -- Brett Hull
I've told you guys before, goalies don't think. -- Chris Osgood
Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through. -- Jacques Plante
When I look at the net I don't see a goalie. -- Pavel Bure
The goal is too small and the goalies are too big. -- Scotty Bowman
In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender. -- Johan Cruijff
You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. (after not being picked starting goalie) -- Jens Lehmann
I'm not a reflex goalie. I try to make as many stops as possible with with my stomach. -- Jean-Sebastien Giguere
I'm not a pretty goalie and I don't ever want to be called one, to tell you the truth. -- Ed Belfour
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The goalie is like the guy on the minefield. He discovers the mines and destroys them. If you make a mistake, somebody gets blown up. -- Arturs Irbe
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 -- Kyle Kinane
Most fans go wild when they see a goalie make what looks like a great save, but the chances are what they are seeing is a save that was made from being out of position. -- Mike Richter
I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie. -- Chris Osgood
It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything -- Kirk McLean
Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher. -- Steve Hamilton
OK, they fire the puck from the blue line. Chief usually yelling 'block the shot' at the defensemen. They doesn't have the goalie gear, but they have to block the shot. So who is more crazy, me or the defensemen? Who is more weird? -- Ilya Bryzgalov
Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change. -- Gerad Adams
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back : with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that. -- Xavi
I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team. -- John Katzman
Well, I've got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives.. -- Gilles Gratton
When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him? -- Dennis Bergkamp
Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment. -- Curtis Joseph
I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs. -- Andy Gray
If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow. -- Terry Crisp

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