I am a sportsman, not a brand ambassador, besides being the first goalkeeper of Adidas.

I don't know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.

I have always seen myself as a Real Madrid goalkeeper and have never doubted my ability.

If you look at my professional history as a goalkeeper, I'm not somebody who makes many.

I played handball up until I joined United, both as a goalkeeper and an outfield player.

I always wanted to be going out on loan and playing football and maturing as a goalkeeper.

I was a goalkeeper at Crewe as a kid but piled on pounds when I stopped training every day.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

It is great that a goalkeeper as good as Iker has said that I could be the best of them all.

I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.

It's about being steady and taking the rough with the smooth, but that's life as a goalkeeper.

I was thinking of winning the Scudetto in Rome. I did not succeed, but I grew as a goalkeeper.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

I think a goalkeeper has to participate at the back of the defence and come off the line to play.

Especially for the goalkeeper, you have to feel the confidence of every staff member and the team.

The biggest thing I have taken away from these two years at Roma is the fact I grew as a goalkeeper.

We believe defending is very much a team job, and we can't just rely on a back four and a goalkeeper.

It's a good thing to interact with a top goalkeeper who has so much experience in the Premier League.

It is important to have the attitude and self confidence to be Barca's goalkeeper, and that I've got.

I consider all aspects of being a goalkeeper as fundamental in the development of the side as a whole.

I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a bowler.

To be a Barca goalkeeper, it's not enough to have quality. You have to make decisions and execute them.

In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.

The interaction between the goalkeeper and the back four has to be top to compete in the Premier League.

Of course my first goal is to save the balls. This is obviously the most important thing as a goalkeeper.

The goalkeeper position is not an easy one. You can only speak about it if you are a goalkeeper yourself.

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

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

As for being the best goalkeeper in the world, it's been written occasionally, but I'd never say it myself.

To be a modern goalkeeper, I have to think offensively, to initiate our attacking moves safely and securely.

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.

As a goalkeeper, you have games where you're really exhausted afterwards, even though you didn't run as much.

I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.

You have so many modern goalkeepers, and they're all different. There's not just one type of modern goalkeeper.

I'm aware that De Gea is a good goalkeeper. He's had a great career, and he's been great over a number of years.

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

Who is the best goalkeeper in the world? It's always hard to choose because there are so many great goalkeepers.

I wasn't good-looking like the heroes. But I had a good physique having been a goalkeeper. I was like a panther.

Playing at Birmingham helped me grow as a goalkeeper: it made me better all round, being a regular part of a team.

As a goalkeeper, you have so much time back there where you're alone, and you're talking to yourself in your head.

Alisson is a top-class goalkeeper, from what I've seen. He performed brilliantly for Roma, and for Brazil as well.

There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.

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.

If a goalkeeper can save you 15-20 points a season, his value is high. It's like a striker scoring 20 goals a season.

The goalkeeper is very, very important, as much as a striker. Anyone who wants to win a title has to have a goalkeeper.

If you are fighting at the top in the Premier League then you cannot do that with a dodgy goalkeeper. It is not possible.

Since myself and a few others like Pepe Reina, we haven't had a goalkeeper who has commanded his area as well as Alisson.

I love to tackle, especially when the grass is wet, but my main aim is to be a complete goalkeeper who can do everything.

I started to play, like all kids do, not as a goalkeeper. I liked scoring goals; in the end, it's all about scoring goals.

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

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