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As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. -- Peter Shilton
Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior. -- Tim Howard
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. -- Roger Federer
I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness. -- Hope Solo
Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience. -- Tim Howard
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper. -- Gary Speed
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
Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second. -- Eric Cantona
My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough. -- Peter Lindbergh
We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina. -- Michel Patini
For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher. -- Rory Kinnear
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
For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place -- Brad Friedel
What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker. -- Peter Drury
Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in. -- Jens Lehmann
Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm. -- Barry Davies
Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He's magical. -- Zinedine Zidane
I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara. -- Lev Yashin
That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs? -- Clive Tyldesley
You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper. -- Gianluigi Buffon
He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it. -- Johan Cruijff
I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person -- Iker Casillas
In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper. -- John Motson
It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him. -- Asmir Begovic
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
Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up. -- Artur Boruc
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. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
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. -- Frank Rijkaard
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. -- Ian Rush
The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space. -- Eduardo Chillida
In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net. -- Orhan Pamuk
You were only a goalkeeper. -- Diego Maradona
Don't try to beat the goalkeeper...Tr y to destroy the goalkeeper. -- Steven Gerrard
I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper. -- Thomas Muller

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