Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Petr Cech
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Czechoslovakian athlete Petr Cech.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
We won back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006, and it was a fantastic achievement, a fantastic feeling. Once you experience that, you want to have it again.
I don't do nervous, really. You always have to respect your opponent, respect the game of football, and be 100 per cent focused.
There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.
I speak all my languages basically every day with the people in the dressing room, and it's a pleasure to be able to do so. On the pitch, if it's a group of players I'm trying to communicate with, then I use English because you need to make sure everyone understands what you are saying.
Unfortunately, money is very important in this world we live in, but it is up to every individual to deal with it.
Buffon may be a bit smaller, but he has everything that you want from a great goalkeeper. He relays his confidence to his defence, and they feel that they have a great keeper behind them. Everybody can make mistakes, but his consistency level is amazing. You never see him have a bad game.
You can be the best manager in the world, but if the players don't trust you, it will never work.
I'm so focused on the game that I hardly understand what the people sing or shout or what they do.
Obviously, every player wants to keep their spot in the starting line-up, and I'm the same.
In big clubs, you always have competitions for places.
If you're not right, you can make a mistake that will cost your team-mates a game.
It's normal in a top club that people change.
Obviously, as long as I enjoy it, I'm fit, and have the desire to work 100 per cent every day with the same motivation, then I want to play.
It's always good to have the right call in the end.
True fans will appreciate what I've done and the legacy I've left.
My father has a book where, ever since I started playing games... he wrote down the games that I played in. And then, when I did my website, we thought that was a really good idea, that people can keep track of my games.
You have to be consistent in your work, consistent in your performances, because, if not, then you might not have as many games as you would like. Less games you play, then less chances to have a clean sheet.
I gave my first interview when I arrived at Chelsea in 2004, and I had said that it had been my dream to play for one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league in the world - this came true, and I am very pleased my dream will last.
Sometimes, when you have a young team full of enthusiasm, they don't feel any pressure; they just play.
I had a depressed skull fracture. A few pieces of bone went in quite deep; that was the biggest danger.
I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.
There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.
Wenger and Mourinho are different, but there is one thing they have in common, and that is that they do not like defeats. And I think this is the driving force behind the success of both of them.
It's always better if you have one manager for a long period because then you can build the team.
I speak five languages, which actually makes it easier when you join a new team. You can settle much quicker because you can help team-mates much faster and better. People need to be careful around me, though - I can understand everything.
If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.
I don't like running that much, and during the off-season, I have to do it, but if I can replace it with tennis, it is better.
You win the way you have to.
Now the ambulance is always ready; the paramedics are always ready. People in the crowd can get help without risk. If you look at the Fabrice Muamba case, this is what helped save his life - the paramedics are there.
It is always great to be a position like this, where you play for everything because it is so exciting.
I always like to do things the right way.
Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.
Who is the best goalkeeper in the world? It's always hard to choose because there are so many great goalkeepers.
When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.
If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.
You need to defend as a team to defend well.
One day, if I feel the fear of putting my head in the middle of some battle or scrum, then I stop.
As a player, you try your best to make things happen, and the rest is up to others.
Every time Luis Suarez is close, he pushes defenders around.
I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.
All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.
Obviously, you have the physicality and the way the game is played in the Premier League. The goalkeeper is not as protected as in Europe or different leagues.
Unfortunately, the manager is always the one who gets under pressure the most.
I'm amazed people talk about my helmet - saying it makes me feel psychologically better. I would love to play without it, but I'm not allowed to by the doctor. As long as I'm told by the doctor I'm running too much risk to play without it, I'll play with it. There's no other way for me.
Football is a wonderful game which can be cruel at times.
Sometimes in the Premier League, you are in a game where you can't play nice football because you just wouldn't win it.
I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.
Chelsea has grown in my heart, not just because of my team-mates and all the people that work for the club but also because of their fantastic fans.
Jose Mourinho doesn't have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.
Once the surgeon said the skull is strong enough with the helmet on, I decided to return to training with the team.
His ball technique is superb, but most importantly, he can react to how the game develops. At the last possible moment in any situation, he can find the ideal solution. There are a lot of ways that Messi can finish an attack.
I know I could be a goalkeeper coach - I feel I am better suited to be a manager.
My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it's so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to say there are a lot of things which you can say in Czech, but you cannot really translate, because the meaning would make no sense.
The connection between the Soviet Union and Czech people - or Czech politicians - was very big. It was like a model country for us. But it wasn't the best model, so a lot of Czechs don't like to speak about Russia or the Soviet Union.
With goal-line technology, there are plenty of results that could be changed.
As a goalkeeper, Van der Sar can do everything. He is very good at coming off his line, and he is also effective as a libero - what they call in England a 'sweeper keeper.'
Arsenal is a team who challenge for the top and definitely match my ambitions and personal motivation.
As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.
You have to have respect for money, but sometimes you get people who stop thinking about their career, and for them, it is just a case of saying, 'Look at me. I have a lot of money now, and I can do whatever I want.' I wouldn't do that.
There are some people who have left me negative messages, but they aren't true Chelsea fans.
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