THE 50 BEST PHRASES OF FAMOUS GOALKEEPERS [WITH IMAGES] - OTHER PHRASES - 2025

I leave you the best phrases of the most outstanding goalkeepers in history, among them Gianluigi Buffon, Iker Casillas, Oliver Kahn, José Luis Chilavert, Schmeichel or Lev Yashin.

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-If you want to be an important footballer, you can also be a goalkeeper.-Gianluigi Buffon.

-Madrid is my home, I am a Madridista at heart, white to death.-Iker Casillas.

-The only thing that matters here are victories and money.-Oliver Kahn.

-What difference is there between winners and mediocre ones? That the mediocre seek not to lose and the winners seek to win.-José Luis Chilavert.

-What we have to do is put our teeth in the Premier League.-Peter Schmeichel.

-You have to create your own luck.-Fabien Barthez.

-I had faith in the players and believed that we could win even after going 2-0 down.-Walter Zenga.

-The goals suffered lurk, always. You don't remember the ones you saved, but the ones that got you. The archer who does not have that internal torment, has no future.-Lev Yashin.

-In the position of the fools, I am the most alive.-Hugo Gatti.

-Discretion is my name, caution is my last name.-Ubaldo Matildo Fillol.

-At that level, each goal is like a knife in the ribs.-Gordon Banks.

-A great goalkeeper is made by eating 400 goals, as long as they are not in the same championship.-Amadeo Carrizo.

-If this is war, peace may not come.-René Higuita.

-I am not a galactic, I am from Móstoles.-Iker Casillas.

- Those of us who have innate talent since childhood should only maintain it. I don't need to go to the gym.-Iker Casillas.

-Don't want to be like the others. Make others want to be like you.-Gianluigi Buffon.

-There is that magical moment when you score goals and you think you're stupid; That's when you decide to become a goalkeeper.-Gianluigi Buffon.

-The best thing on my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.-Joe Hart.

-The viewer tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper, I do the difficult job.-Manuel Neuer.

-The feeling of seeing Yuri Gagarin fly in space is only surpassed by the enjoyment of stopping a penalty.-Lev Yashin.

-The path to success is accompanied by failure. But failures are the test towards greatness.-Oliver Kahn.

-I have acted for humanitarian reasons. If I were needed again to secure someone's release, I would not hesitate to act. I am a soccer player, I did not know the law on kidnappings.-René Higuita.

-You always expect to do well in a club like this in major competitions and we have not done it. It is a displeasure for new ones like me who have not tasted success and also for those who have been here longer.-Edwin Van der Sar.

-As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organizing the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what is happening and react to threats. Just like a good boss in business.-Peter Shilton.

-I was never a left archer, I prefer to take my risks, even if I'm wrong. I like to go to the front because I trust blindly in my conditions.-Juan Pablo Carrizo.

-A hero does not need a cape, he only needs a pair of gloves.

-Being a goalkeeper is very similar to being the guy in the army who makes the bombs, because once he makes a mistake, everyone explodes.-Artur Boruc.

-Being a goalkeeper gives you a very particular perspective on things. You are part of a team but somehow separate. There are no gray areas and success or failure is measured in real time.-Brad Friedel.

-You must maintain enormous mental strength, because you get a lot of sticks. As a goalkeeper, you are the last line of defense. Everyone looks at you and you must be able to deal with that.-David Seaman.

35-Goalkeepers need a large dose of madness.-Oliver Kahn.

-For a goalkeeper there is no hiding place.-Brad Friedel.

-I do not want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper, I prefer to be remembered as a great person.-Iker Casillas.

-If you make a mistake, it could be the worst of all. What you have to do as a goalkeeper is ask yourself: how are you going to recover? Are you going to react positively or are you going to let yourself be beaten? -David Seaman.

-The best thing is to be a forward because if you lose five opportunities and then score a goal, you become a hero. The goalkeeper, on the other hand, can play blind and let in a goal and easily becomes a villain.-Ian Rush.

-An excellent goalkeeper must know the keys to have a great mentality.-Brad Friedel.

-If you forget that you have to constantly fight to improve, go back.-Geoff Hickson.

-As a goalkeeper you cannot get off the bench for 10 minutes and show your merit, in this playing position either you are in or you are out.-Joe Hart.

-Football is a fertility festival. There are eleven sperm trying to enter the egg, I am very sorry for the goalkeeper.-Bjork.

-He could not have been an excellent goalkeeper without the virtue of having energy, agility and speed.-Hope Solo.

-The characteristics that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same that you need to be a good sculptor. In both professions, you must have a good relationship with time and space.-Eduardo Chillida.

-All my childhood consisted of observing photographs in which the spectator saw the ball behind the line, looking through the goal and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.-Orhan Pamuk.

-Don't try to beat the goalkeeper, make the effort to destroy him.-Steven Gerrard.

-There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.-Lev Yashin.

-At the end of the day, you need to be a bit of a masochist to become a goalkeeper. A masochist and also a great egocentric.-Gianluigi Buffon.

-Everyone in the world makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers do it, it is expensive and that is the true nature of being a goalkeeper.-Gary Speed.

-It cannot be denied that Senzo Meyiwa was just a child when he was already becoming and transforming into one of the best goalkeepers in Africa.-Stephen Keshi.

-The goalkeeper always plays in a psychological position and is constantly facing mental situations.-Oliver Kahn.

-Everything that Iniesta does impresses me, he could even play as a goalkeeper. He is a magical player.-Zinedine Zidane.

-The role of a goalkeeper is complex to judge, especially if you have not been, it is as if I gave an opinion about someone's work without having had any experience in their sector. It is from this that you begin to realize how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.-Gianluigi Buffon.

25-Goalkeepers are not born as players until they are in their thirties.-Kevin Keegan.

-It seems prudent to describe all the things that I did wrong and especially those that I did well, so that other people can learn from my experiences.-Oliver Kahn.

- There is no position in sport as noble as illegal blocking.-Vladislav Tretiak.

-Particularly, for me, Neuer is one of the best goalkeepers in history.-Pep Guardiola.

-What kind of goalkeeper is he who is not distressed by what he has allowed? He must always be completely tormented! And if he is calm, it means bad news for the team.-Lev Yashin.

-It is not necessary for a goalkeeper to look good.-Asmir Begovic.

-The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and reaching him should be an almost impossible feat.-George Graham.

-I do not consider myself to be the best goalkeeper in the world, on the contrary, for me Vladimir Beara is.-Lev Yashin.

-Only a goalkeeper can estimate what another goalkeeper is going through.-Jacques Plante.

34-Goalkeepers never get credit for winning a game, but they are always blamed for losing it.-Steve Carell.

-Would you like it if in your work, every time you made the slightest mistake, a little red light was lit over your head and 18,000 people stood up and yelled at you? -Jacques Plante.