Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Jordan Pickford

Sometimes you can't help conceding as a keeper, but that's the whole reason you are there.

The more games you play, the more game management you learn.

I wasn't going to McDonald's every week, but a nice pizza after three points isn't a bad way to have it.

Petr Cech has been a top keeper in the Premier League for the last 10-12 years. When you're growing up, you see him making these saves week in, week out. He's probably been the most consistent goalkeeper in these last 10 years in the Premier League, so you can't give him too much criticism.

I did a lot of lower league, and in lower league, you're not going to be playing out from the back; you're going to hit it long and try to get the second ball.

It's my job to be a goalkeeper and keep the ball out of the net, and that's what I've done. I've kept a clean sheet.

I'd travel to Alfreton for games, and my dad, Lee, would drive. I'd eat my pre-match meal in the back. Mam would make chicken and pasta, and she'd stick it in a tub.

Places like Wrexham and Southport, when there are not that many people there, were tough. You are a young lad, and you're having abuse hurled at you.

The gaffer Gareth Southgate knows I can play with my feet, but he knows the capability I have in goal as well. He has put the faith in me, and I had to repay him in the World Cup, and I think I did.

It is nice when other keepers say, 'Well done for last summer.' Petr Cech said that. It is touching.

I got a lot of games under my belt in the lower leagues, and I don't feel the Premier League or England is that much different.

I want to become the best person as a goalkeeper I can be.

The pitch is always going to be the same lines, same goal height. It's just a game of football.

We do about 600 saves in a training week, just for that one save on a match day. That's why you've got to be in the game at all times.

I have always said you only get one shot in life as a footballer.

Criticism doesn't affect me. It just makes me want to be better.

I train hard every day in the gym and on the pitch to show what I can do on a match day.

I always work hard on and off the pitch for the Saturday's game, and it's all about performing on a Saturday; that's why I work my socks off during the week.

I never really doubt myself or think that if I make a mistake, I am going to make another mistake.

I don't worry about being the best keeper in the tournament. I just focus on being the best I possibly can for myself and for the team.

It's the little things you remember. My mam, Sue, would take me to training in a taxi when I was a kid if Dad, who is a builder, had to work on a Saturday morning. You look back at the stuff like that and realise the sacrifices were all worth it.

I always take my opportunities.

I'm always ready to play when called upon; that's why I train so hard.

Freak mistakes happen sometimes as a goalkeeper that if you make them, then it's always going to bite you.

Being through the England set-up since I was a young lad, passing was the style of football I grew up with.

As long as you are set and in the right position, you give yourself the best opportunity. It's all about the crucial timing of a save, but it's also being in the right position at the right time.

Sometimes I was getting bored playing in youth games and in the reserves; I didn't think it was challenging. I always wanted to be challenged and better myself.

Coming into a new club, it's always exciting.

I always enjoy football.

I am able to mentally block out mistakes.

A goalkeeper's mistakes are always crucial ones - or get talked about a lot.

Football doesn't bother me. I just enjoy it. It's when you have to go to clubs and sing and do initiations and all that stuff. That's when I get nervous.

You know yourself if you are doing well, and I think my form shouldn't be getting questioned.

I know if I have played well or badly. I always ask my dad, and he tells me straight.

As a Sunderland fan, I loved Tommy Sorensen.

It's never nice to make mistakes, but it's just how you bounce back.

I've crossed every bridge to become a Premier League goalkeeper, I think I'm going in the right direction and I think I'm mature as a goalkeeper.

When there are just 500 fans inside a ground, you can hear everything they say, every little word that is getting said. So that is what turns you from a kid into a man.

I'm just a lad who likes playing football. I'm not bothered about anything else.

I remember going for a drink of water, and one old bloke shouts, 'Hey you, young lad! Your grandad is under that grass!' I just turned around to him, gave him the thumbs up and said: 'Nae problem!'

I was growing up watching Rooney as an England legend and as one of the top players in England in my lifetime.

The only way you're going to get caps is by playing. I've played all the way through the age groups, and that was my experience. Now I'm on the main stage, and I've got to play to my strengths.

It is all about concentration, and the more games you play, the more you concentrate.

As a goalkeeper, you want to be the best, but you can only get better by playing games, making saves, and putting in man-of-the-match performances.

I've got power and agility. I don't care if I'm not the biggest keeper; I've got the power and agility to get around the goal, and I'm very good at it.

You've got to accept where mistakes will happen, and it's about not making the next one.

I try not to do tricks because I don't want to be caught with it. It's a risk.

If you're not ambitious, there's no point in playing football.

I've been critcised for going with my top hand, but as long as you save it, that's all that counts.

I know I'm only 24, but I know in my head already I am mature, because I've got the right mental side of it.

England fans are a different class. When the fans are like that, it makes us even better and so much more relaxed.

I never put myself under any pressure or anything. I embrace the moment, play in the moment, and I feel strong. Nothing fazes me; I just want to be myself.

There is always a case as a goalkeeper, if you make an error, it will lead to a goal.

I watched football, but I was a kid who really preferred being out on the street with my mates playing hide and seek!

I play in the moment; nothing fazes me.

As a goalkeeper, you've got to have mental toughness, and that's one thing I'm good at.

I've been a professional since I was a 17-year-old, over 200 league games from Conference all the way up to the Premier League now, so I think that's experience in itself.

As long as I'm communicating and staying in the game, my concentration is always going to be there.

You don't want to get too comfortable if you're winning and start trying to be a number 10.

So long as I keep performing week in, week out for Everton, I will have the chance to stay England number one.