Goalkeeper Quotes

• Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Nature
  • Mistakes
  • Goalkeeper

• Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box.

  

  Brad Friedel
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Team

• When you are a goalkeeper, you know the responsibility.

  

  Hugo Lloris
  • Responsibility
  • Goalkeeper

• Beyond remembering me as a good goalkeeper or a bad goalkeeper, I just hope that people remember me for being a good person.

  

  Iker Casillas
  • Remember
  • Person
  • Goalkeeper

• Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.

  

  Artur Boruc
  • Mistake
  • Goalkeeper
  • Blown Up

• The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Position
  • Psychological
  • Goalkeeper

• Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.

  

  Declan Lynch
  • London
  • Indeed
  • Typically

• When I started, I was a striker for the first few months. Our goalkeeper didn't show up once, and the team was asked who wanted to fill in for him. No-one really wanted to, but I thought it would be an interesting challenge, so I agreed to do it.

  

  Loris Karius
  • Interesting
  • Challenge
  • Thought

• It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

  

  Asmir Begovic
  • Respect
  • Celebrate
  • Goalkeeper

• For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place.

  

  Brad Friedel
  • Hiding
  • Goalkeeper

• It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.

  

  Hugo Lloris
  • Save
  • Behind
  • Goalkeeper

• Of course you think about the goalkeeper you are facing before a game. You have to prepare yourself for the game and think about the weakness of the players you are up against.

  

  Mohamed Salah
  • Yourself
  • Players
  • Against