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The biggest thing I have taken away from these two years at Roma is the fact I grew as a goalkeeper.
For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.
It's about being steady and taking the rough with the smooth, but that's life as a goalkeeper.
I wasn't good-looking like the heroes. But I had a good physique having been a goalkeeper. I was like a panther.
I'm going to play with one goalkeeper, obviously, one defender, one midfielder and two attackers, very offensive because we need to score goals.
The interaction between the goalkeeper and the back four has to be top to compete in the Premier League.
I don't know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.
I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.
We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.
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.
Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.
Of course my first goal is to save the balls. This is obviously the most important thing as a goalkeeper.
It's normal that a club like Barcelona need more than one top-level goalkeeper.
I am a sportsman, not a brand ambassador, besides being the first goalkeeper of Adidas.
Obviously, I couldn't imagine that my career would go so well. When I first started, I wanted to play out of goal. But there was no goalkeeper, and the coach put me in goal.
Swansea invested in me. They took a chance on me because I was a second-choice goalkeeper with not much experience when it comes to Premier League games.
For me, it is a dream come true to play in the Premier League as a No. 1 goalkeeper.
To be a Barca goalkeeper, it's not enough to have quality. You have to make decisions and execute them.
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.
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.
It's a good thing to interact with a top goalkeeper who has so much experience in the Premier League.
I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
A goalkeeper's mistakes are always crucial ones - or get talked about a lot.
Petr Cech has been a top keeper in the Premier League for the last 10-12 years. When you're growing up, you see him making these saves week in, week out. He's probably been the most consistent goalkeeper in these last 10 years in the Premier League, so you can't give him too much criticism.
There is always a case as a goalkeeper, if you make an error, it will lead to a goal.
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.
You're always supposed to follow-up any cross or whatever towards the goalkeeper.
As a goalkeeper it's so important to be in the right position to come and clear those through balls, to make those right decisions.
I wasn't a goalkeeper until I was 13 or 14 so before that, my heroes were the likes of Paul Scholes and David Beckham, but since becoming a goalkeeper, I've obviously trained with Joe Hart.
I want to become the best goalkeeper in the country and the best goalkeeper around.
In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.
Often, there are fallacies when a journalist or a fan and sometimes even a coach who has never been a goalkeeper sees a cross in the six-yard box and says he should come out.
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.
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.
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.
I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a bowler.
I consider all aspects of being a goalkeeper as fundamental in the development of the side as a whole.
Every goalkeeper has their own strong points and qualities. What I like to do is focus on every keeper. You can pick bits out of every keeper where they are particularly strong, and you can learn from things like that.
I think the first attacker has the ball, starts from the back, you can see everything, and you have to play with the feel of a midfielder, not a goalkeeper.
I'm lucky enough to be mentally strong, which I think is fundamental for a goalkeeper.
Paolo Maldini never won, but he was the best defender in the world. Gianluigi Buffon never won; he was the best goalkeeper in the world for many years. But this is the story of the Ballon d'Or.
Goalkeeper is a very influential position, and that is becoming recognised now. If you think about it, any error that we make can be fatal for the team. It can lead to a goal and cause a defeat.
I was a goalkeeper at Crewe as a kid but piled on pounds when I stopped training every day.
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