As much as you want to improve or help the team, as a centre-back your job is to go under the radar and keep the ball out of the net. If you do that and let the strikers get all the adulation and the headlines, then you're probably doing your job.
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.
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.
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.
If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.
Your No. 1 priority as a defender is to keep the ball out of the back of the net.
I've kept my nose clean when I've been asked to to play out of position, and I've done it.
We always want to keep a clean sheet, but there are situations we can't control.
If I keep a clean sheet, I have had a good game; it is as simple as that.
I fast every Sunday. I don’t eat anything. Just juices. […] It flushes out the system, cleans out the colon. I think that’s great. To really make it work, you have to do it properly. That’s the sewer valve of the system. You have to keep that clean like you clean the outside of your body. All these impurities come out of your system because you’re not clean inside. It comes out in pimples or disease or through big pores. Toxins trying to get out of your system. People should try to keep themselves clean.
Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your body is like trying to keep the wind out of the trees.
I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. That is the best answer.
My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work.
The defenders make me very angry. They are kicking, or they are pinching or they say things to me that I don't like. They try to do everything to take me out of the game. I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. This is the best answer.
I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.
It's hard as a striker. It's cut and dried. Your job is to put the ball in the back of the net.