Top 92 Goalkeepers Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Bravo, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, and Jordi Masip are three goalkeepers of the highest quality.
Senzo Meyiwa was just a young kid and was already becoming one of the best goalkeepers in Africa.
Goalkeepers are like wine, the longer you keep it, the better it tastes.
Brazil is well served for goalkeepers, many who have not been to the World Cup are very good.
In the future, you'll see many more nominations for big awards going to goalkeepers.
You'll always find that goalkeepers are a team within the team, and I've always had good relationships with the others, which is important because nobody understands the mindset of a goalkeeper like the other goalkeepers.
I am really happy with the increased recognition that goalkeepers are getting now. I'm glad to be a leading part of that.
Neuer is one of the best goalkeepers in history.
When the assessment of goalkeepers is made by people who have never actually stood there in a game and experienced it, then it's hard to take it without a large pinch of salt.
Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late 20s or 30s and sometimes not even then. Or so it would appear. To me anyway. Don't you think the same?
I regard Buffon as one of the best goalkeepers in the history of football. He is a legend for me, a fantastic man, and an excellent goalkeeper.
Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.
I'd say I have a better view of the game than anybody that's why I have always thought that goalkeepers make the best captains.
It's good to have competition and good for the club to have three strong goalkeepers.
I always had a concept of watching great players, great goalkeepers.
For goalkeepers, the better years, they say, come from the age of 27 or 28.
At the end of the day, we're goalkeepers, and we live with making mistakes. We learn from a young age that you can make a mistake at any point.
For the life of me, I'll never understand why the teams that have the best defences get criticised. Shouldn't clean sheets be a badge of honour for defenders and goalkeepers?
In my opinion, there are fewer and fewer great goalkeepers because, with respect to when I started, they have to do so much more compared with in the past.
Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.
Thank God Brazilian goalkeepers are now learning to play with their feet, because that was the big problem.
If you asked all the goalkeepers in my era, they will tell you that they were worth a lot more than the price they were bought.
We sometimes undervalue the importance of goalkeepers.
Goalkeepers are all the same.
We, the goalkeepers, have a specific job.
England has always been famous for great goalkeepers, before I came. We had good goalkeepers, but we didn't have the big world-class 'keeper, maybe.
I am always loath to assign goalkeepers too much importance, but you have to make an exception for the greats.
We study the shooters of the opponents - the team, the goalkeeping coach and the other goalkeepers.
Petr Cech is one of the finest goalkeepers I have seen and he has proved that in the Premier League.
For goalkeepers, confidence comes from games and minutes. So whenever someone gives you an opportunity or shows faith in you, it always gives you a boost.
As far as I am concerned, Donnarumma is one of the most important goalkeepers in the world.
Goalkeepers don't get second chances, but also, we can win games and be praised, so that's the way it is.
There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.
Who is the best goalkeeper in the world? It's always hard to choose because there are so many great goalkeepers.
I think modern football has evolved a lot. Goalkeepers do several things during the game.
You look at situations like Thibaut Courtois and Petr Cech at Chelsea, two of the best goalkeepers in the world at the same club, one of them's going to be unhappy.
Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?
Such great goalkeepers have played in England over the years - the likes of Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton, and Bert Trautmann.
The quality of goalkeepers is very good in the Premier League - and you have to be good at using your feet.
A striker scores goals, but the goalkeepers saves them, the defenders close chances down, and all the credit is shared out.
Bernd Leno's injury has changed my career. Other great goalkeepers - such as Iker Casillas - have got their big opportunities when the first-choice keeper was injured.
Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
It just goes to show how much the women's game has improved over the years: there are some outstanding goalkeepers capable of fantastic reaction saves.
In Europe, you are taught to keep the ball out of the net any way possible. That's why Germany and Spain have the best goalkeepers in the world. They give young goalkeepers a chance and accept they are going to make mistakes. Long term, that will reap huge rewards.
If you go to Spain and ask, 'Who has the best goalkeepers?' they will say, 'The Spanish.' If you go to Germany, they will say German goalkeepers, and Italy the same. You go to England and they say, 'God knows!'
I don't watch goalkeepers, to be honest.
I can't say who is the best, because all of them have their qualities. There are many goalkeepers out there who can make a difference.
I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered.
Big teams want goalkeepers who are not only good on the line but good with their feet as well.
I'm not stupid - if you buy one of the world's best goalkeepers, it's not to keep him on the bench.
We need to give our goalkeepers the same level of training that we've given to our outfield players.
A match against Pakistan is never an easy prospect - especially for goalkeepers in a penalty shootout. We can either become heroes or zeroes.
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
A lot of goalkeepers are naturally very vocal and outgoing so it's a natural thing for a keeper.
Some goalkeepers are really sexy with their feet. I have a little sexiness with my feet, but I don't like to bring it out.
There are very few young goalkeepers who play at the top level. Most goalkeepers figure it out as time goes on.
I think the idea of crazy goalkeepers is an old thing, really.
With goalkeepers, when a team looks for a keeper, it looks for someone with experience.
The strikers need the midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. My objective is to have everything work in all the aspects.
You have so many modern goalkeepers, and they're all different. There's not just one type of modern goalkeeper.