Goalkeeper Quotations

With the lack of a goalkeeper and the lack of a center midfielder, we have no flow. If we do get the ball to our forwards, we have one or two against four or five defenders, so we don't stand that much of a chance. Everything's pretty much in our end.

We have high expectations for this class to fill our greatest need at goalkeeper and add depth to the rest of the positions. All of these players are expected to come in and fight for starting positions.

She's doing a great job for us. Being a freshman goalkeeper is not an easy position to be in. She needs a little more experience but she is playing hard.

She just finishes well. She gets there so quick. When she takes off she goes to the goal and you're not going to catch her. Then she takes on the goalkeeper and finishes, just finding the keeper and putting the ball in the net.

No one expects the goalkeeper to make the save.

Philip has proven he's the best goalkeeper in our league this season. Our entire defensive unit has played extremely well all season long.

I am happy with the performance of the team but we should have scored more goals and their goalkeeper played very well. I told the players at halftime to finish the game off but we couldn't get the third goal.

I can't fault my players. They worked as hard as always. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did really well,

Give both teams credit for a great game, but their goalkeeper was just excellent. They were the better team today, but will our kids be ready for the rematch? Heck, yeah. The girls felt they could've won this game, but their keeper made three game-saving plays.

I don't think I could have struck it any better but I think the goalkeeper has read where I was going to put it and that's unfortunate for me. If I had put it away, maybe it would have been all over but we're not going to know that now.

Goalkeeper is a specialized position, and goalkeepers need the specific training that they can get from Mike. To have somebody that can take the goalkeepers aside and give them some goalkeeper workouts, so to speak, is very important to their development and our game's development. The way it stands now, having Danny and Drew spending some time with Mike each and every day is a benefit to them.

If the German national coach can leave a goalkeeper like him on the substitutes' bench then German football can not be that bad.

He is as far along technically as any goalkeeper we've had. He will need to become more of a field general and direct traffic.

We took him out of the goal because he was begging to get on the field to score. He accomplished his mission, and so we put him back in goal to defend the lead because he is a good goalkeeper as well.

We made their goalkeeper look great in the first half. The pressure was continuous. In the second half we finally found a way to get the ball into the net.

He was probably the top goalkeeper in Sweden when I started to play. He was really good.

He was phenomenal all night for us. That's why he's an All-State goalkeeper and an All-American.

It is good, but one of the only positive things we can take out of the performance. We are disappointed with the way we played. I think it is two points dropped. It was a horrible, scrappy game and I don't think either goalkeeper has made a save.

I think at the moment he's just been establishing himself as the goalkeeper, now he has got to become a leader, ... I think its really important that a goalkeeper does become a leader in the backfield and I think it's something he's starting to realize and something he's really starting to work on.

Jason is an extremely athletic goalkeeper who has great distribution. He played in a lot of big games last year.

Jamie Ashdown has been great for me - and having someone so experienced around can only bring him on because he is a very good young goalkeeper in a difficult situation.

Our goalkeeper had his work cut out for him.

Over a season, he's very much the most consistent goalkeeper in the league.

Most of our experience is on defense with four veterans and an experienced goalkeeper back. But a lot of our kids haven't played a lot of varsity field hockey, so our first concern is getting all of them working together.

We just can't have the best goalkeeper off playing golf while we have an international match, ... Next time, he's going swimming.

You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of mistakes he's made that have cost us goals. Over two and a half seasons for any manager to say that about his goalkeeper is exceptional. He's been top quality.

Which goalkeeper has the worst disciplinary record in history?

We had loads of possession, but we didn't really test their goalkeeper until the end of the match.

We have a great defending team. I've said it before, your defense is part of your goalkeeper stats. I think the guys have done fantastic in front. Tonight, all five guys came up, played great, and limited their opportunities.

We could have avoided all these problems. The clubs are paying the price for this. The intensification of the goalkeeper issue has become a huge problem. The hunt for the job has caused a lot of problems.

We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids have a lot of heart, and our goalkeeper (Patch Skinner) is playing with a lot of heart at the goal. He's going to give it his all if the players in front of him do. We have just one shot to shock the Silver Division, and we want to do that.

Tim continues to be a very talented goalkeeper that we think, given time and the right opportunity, is going to continue to improve and be a terrific goalkeeper at the international level. One day he will be the No. 1 goalkeeper for the U.S.

We practically have goalkeeper Loxley Reid, he should have played today against Tivoli but it seems like a few minor details has not yet been worked out.

To be a good goalkeeper you have to learn every aspect of the game. You have to know everyone else's position because they're coming at you.

We would like to come up with a detailed set-up we could test as soon as next season. The only improvement introduced in football over the last 20 years is that the ball can't be passed with the foot to the goalkeeper any more.

We started well, but I knew the game wasn't over. Beavercreek really took it to us in the third period, and fortunately, our goalkeeper (Serif) stood on his head to keep us in it.

With a goalkeeper you can name a replacement for two weeks and just keep extending it from that point.

When I see that the best goalkeeper (Kahn) is playing golf when the match is on it makes me crazy,

You have to create your own luck. At 2-0 the match is over. With a Beckham penalty it is 90 percent luck for a goalkeeper and 10 percent concentration.

When you play the top four away, you need your goalkeeper to get 11 out of 10 and that's what Thomas did for us. He made some great saves and showed a bit of composure and gave us belief that we could pick something up here.

We will look to Erin to step in and be our number one keeper. She's a great athlete with good size and good hands. Goalkeeper can be a difficult position for a freshman to step in and play right away, but we really think she can do it.

We were excellent last week, we really were, but we were also very, very unlucky. Their goalkeeper got man of the match and I look on that as a compliment to my team.

We've had a lot of shots on goal lately. But we've been giving the ball to the goalkeeper or just missing. It's something we've really been working hard on. I mean, if we just made 25 percent of those shots, that would be something.

We have a club here that has 105 points and we have a goalkeeper in Emery who is playing very well at this particular time. It doesn't make any sense to hurry Dom back. We do not have any hidden agenda.

This team should be strong in most positions across the field, particularly at the goalkeeper position and at forward and center. We should also have plenty of depth on the bench that will keep us competitive throughout the season.

We just wanted to win. In fairness to the Canadians they defended pretty well and the goalkeeper had a blinder.

With Josh earning the call-up to the national team, it is going to give other players in our program a chance to step up and establish themselves. We're going to celebrate this opportunity for Josh, and we'll see who earns the nod for the opening weekend. We're fortunate to have some depth at the goalkeeper position.

We certainly will need to have a third goalkeeper on our roster somewhere, so we're still wide open in terms of how we put it together.

Brittany is a very accomplished goalkeeper and puts us in the enviable position of having two excellent players at that position.

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

It would be real bad if we were putting in a freshman goalkeeper in the goal and our whole back line is new too. It makes it easier when you have a guy like Burke who has been doing it for a couple of years and has some experience. It certainly eases the pain and it is certainly a good thing.

Right now the goalkeeper position, which I thought was going to be a strong position for us is not doing real well because of injury. It's just bad luck, sometimes that happens to a team. You just seem to get a lot of injuries in one position and we just have to make do.

The momentum was with us. We had it after that penalty kick. We created our chances. But for her to take that kind of a shot and surprise the goalkeeper like that, you could see our whole team get up and get ready to go.

A point each was probably a fair result, although I think we just edged it. Their goalkeeper played particularly well with three or four excellent saves.

As a goalkeeper you certainly cover more real estate if you're big, so he covers a fair amount of real estate, ... He's got a big wingspan.

This is hurting the teams. Kahn certainly wouldn't have played the match if the decision over the Germany goalkeeper was settled.

This is the first time he'll be our starting goalkeeper so I know he's really looking forward to the challenge.

The way we look at our goalkeeper position is once someone wins the position, the other has to win it back.

They have a good goalkeeper and a couple of other good players. (McClure) is probably their best player, and they play their top line every other shift.

There were opportunities but they defended well and their goalkeeper pulled off a series of great saves.

As well as spirit, I thought we played good football - although we should have made their goalkeeper work harder.

It's a tremendous honor. He deserves it. He's been the best goalkeeper in this league for the last 10 years, by far.

It?s funny because we were practicing and Eric was flying around the goal and diving for everything. I told him, ?Hey dude, relax, the game?s tomorrow (so take it easy).? But that?s the type of attitude he plays with. I don?t care what anyone else says ? to me, he?s the best goalkeeper in South Texas.

It was a great shot. Their goalkeeper did play off her line and (Kelly) was about even with me. I told her to hit it, and she pulled the trigger.

They (Lake Highlands) finished more chances than we did. We had some good opportunities, but we didn't finish. They also had a good goalkeeper who turned away several shots.

Not too many of my side are playing first-team football, and it showed. Too many of them looked rusty. It was a good kick up the backside - although to be honest, neither goalkeeper had much to do.

Not making a decision on the starting goalkeeper after the last friendly against the United States (on March 22) was irresponsible. It's psychological terror, absolute psycho terror.

At times we overwhelmed Trinity but their goalkeeper had an outstanding game. I think we were the more talented team but, in soccer, that doesn't always guarantee a win. We were pleased to get this one in the win column.

Their goalkeeper threw the ball out and when I turned, I just felt it pop.

Their goalkeeper is phenomenal. I really hope she does something with soccer because you can see her potential.

I know in this position the goalkeeper will anticipate. I shot very, very hard, ... I'm tired. It's a long day. We played what? Three hours? It looked like we played three hours.

Hope just has a very complete game, and her kicking game is fantastic. She one-bounced one to the German goalkeeper on a 120-yard field. If she can get the ball there, we can be attacking in their penalty box off a flick.

I decided that Fabien is going to play the first match and Greg will be the goalkeeper for the second,

I do not include the goalkeeper in this, but the rest of the team I have told to go home, have a look at their kids and ask them how daddy did today. None of them earned their wages.

I do not agree with this theory that a goalkeeper needs security. Both players have raised their level because they are being pushed.

You can only ask your goalkeeper to make that first save. She did and then we had three girls all watching the ball trickle back to the one player who could touch it. That was a shame. But I'm not going to take away from the improvement the kids made from Monday. We just had a lapse at a really bad time.

A goalkeeper has to be ready all the time. You take your rest because you just never know.

Andres took a nice firm shot at the far post because their goalkeeper left it wide open, and he put it in.

The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me a pretty easy shot. I got it in, which was huge for us. We really needed to win this game.

The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.

The goal didn't count. I didn't hesitate for a second to disallow it. If I had to start over, I'd do the exact same thing. You can't charge down a goalkeeper like that,

The game could have ended 4-4, ... Our goalkeeper Frank Rost deserves a lot of credit for helping us come away with a point.

The first goal is a bit of the same. He is in an off-side position in the six-yard box and you can see that the goalkeeper is a bit distracted.

The conditions you need to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same conditions you need to be a good sculptor. You must have a very good connection, in both professions, with time and space.

The last time I was in the shootout, the goalkeeper made a kick save. So now I decided to try to get the puck between his legs.