Top 70 Keeper Quotes

A keeper can almost never catch my shots.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years – particularly ‘My Sister’s Keeper.’ It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people’s minds.

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back of a length, he runs me down to third-man. I go short, and he lifts me over the keeper or pulls me for four.

I know a lot of people say why rush to get married. But he’s definitely the one and definitely a keeper.

The secret at the heart of ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter’ is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.

Within the Intelligence Community, CIA is the keeper of the human intelligence mission. Technical forms of collection are vital, but a good human source is unique and can deliver decisive intelligence on our adversaries’ secrets – even their intent.

Bernd Leno’s injury has changed my career. Other great goalkeepers – such as Iker Casillas – have got their big opportunities when the first-choice keeper was injured.

I’m the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest… and I don’t want the world to forget that.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

A lot of goalkeepers are naturally very vocal and outgoing so it’s a natural thing for a keeper.

I remember being coached at Liverpool, and there was another kid called Toni Silva, and they said, ‘You know, instead of blasting the ball, and it goes in, do like Toni does: pass it around the keeper.’

Neuer is the world’s No.1 keeper and can be used as a role model for all young keepers. He has everything a goalkeeper needs to have.

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother’s keeper.

I was a promising keeper as a kid and, at 15 and 16, was on the books of Crewe Alexandra.

Shoot-outs are always challenging, but as the keeper, I like to think that I enjoy them because there is no pressure on me.

I turned goalkeeper. My father had been one and we had a goal in the back garden. He’d taught me a bit about it so I thought I’d give it a go. I didn’t really know whether it was going to be a good choice or a bad one but I joined a small local team as a keeper and it turned out to be a really good decision.

My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there’s a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento… and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.

I would never want a guy who is not a natural keeper.

When you make a mistake, and the team is not doing well in defence, then the centre-backs and the ‘keeper suffer more than the others.

When I am No. 2, and I am working as hard as I can, then quite often the keeper ahead starts to raise his game even more.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

When people ask me about Cade, how he’s doing or how we’re doing, I always end up saying, ‘Oh he’s great, he’s a keeper, he’s a good one.’

‘Suttree’ is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written ‘The Orchard Keeper’ and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed ‘Huckleberry Finn.’

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 could play anywhere. I played everywhere on the pitch for United, apart from No. 9 or keeper.

You have got to let the ball come to you as a keeper.

I’m not happy when I do let goals in… what keeper is?

England has always been famous for great goalkeepers, before I came. We had good goalkeepers, but we didn’t have the big world-class ‘keeper, maybe.

There were periods when I was first-choice keeper and was starting to consolidate my position when out of the blue I got injured. It happened a few times and it really unsettled me.

It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out – thinking, ‘Oh yeah, I’d love to be a third-choice keeper’ – but your situation changes as your career goes on.

I’ve always believed that if you are in the WWE system, that in two years or less, the staff should be able to tell who’s a keeper and who’s not.

For me to pretend I’m the keeper of the small town mentality or that’s all I’m interested in is wrong.

As a goalkeeper, Van der Sar can do everything. He is very good at coming off his line, and he is also effective as a libero – what they call in England a ‘sweeper keeper.’

Even if I was the only keeper left on the planet, I would still be trying to get better.

As a kid, I was more scared of the supernatural stuff and ghosts and goblins and the Crypt Keeper from ‘Tales from the Crypt.’ I was always scared he would chase me up the stairs, as a kid.

With goalkeepers, when a team looks for a keeper, it looks for someone with experience.

I generally try to bowl one-on-one with the ‘keeper and bowl all the deliveries in my arsenal so that he can have a good look.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people’s agenda.

As a keeper, you can’t be afraid.

I don’t keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I’ll send emails to friends, and that’s a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I’ve never been a journal keeper.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of the canon since 1970. I don’t like that, because he uses institutional power and he uses economic power to enforce those standards.

How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

If I have a keeper who can play like a central midfielder, then I have 11 players rather than 10. Ive got a deep sweeper.

I’ve made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that’s for sure. I’ll make plenty more before I’m through.

I am old enough to think the word ‘journalist’ is not all that noble a designation. Journalist – that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases – was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer – once the ambition of every journalist – was to be the greater truth teller.

If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

I consider myself a very secure and calm keeper.

I wouldn’t dare compare myself to Buffon, not as a man and not as a keeper.

To me, as a keeper, you don’t learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don’t learn from eating the organic lunches at the buffet, you know what I mean? You can only learn from experience.

I used to dream about taking the ball ’round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

If the keeper is standing up, in the fear of getting stumped, the batsman will not try to walk down the wicket to negate the swing.

Of course, getting to be No. 1 keeper in the world is a tough ask because there are loads of goalkeepers out there and some very good ones, too. But I always try to give my very best to reach that standard.

It’s not the mistake that’s important; it’s how you recover from it. If you recover instantly, in that second, it’s gone from your mind. You play on and don’t make the next mistake, and that’s the sign of a top keeper. Joe Hart certainly is one of those guys.

I’m not a keeper who hasn’t shown his ability.

In the 40 or so years I’ve known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry.

I had a great life even before ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter’ took off. I really enjoy teaching.

As a keeper, you have to understand that your job is black and white: you make a save, or you don’t; you can be the hero – or the goat.

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,’ even in hardcover.

My dad was a fantastic keeper and I am extremely proud of his achievements.

As a keeper, you have more time, and you do hear more from the stands.

Our keeper, Karen Bardsley, stakes out any penalty, any free-kick, any corner. KB knows the detail of how the person will take it.

I’m trying to get people to see that we are our brother’s keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

I prefer playing up front, really, because I feel like if I make the right run, or if I get the ball at the right time, I can just be one-on-one with the defender, and then if I manage to get past the centre-back, it’s one-on-one with the ‘keeper.

Oh, I think I’d be a lighthouse keeper. I was living on my own for a lot through COVID, and I think I was quite good at it.

When I first arrived at Leatherhead, I banned our keeper from kicking it long.

Highs have to be all the trophies I won with Chelsea over the 8-9 years I was with them there. We had a good group, and we were winners from the goal keeper right throughout the team. These are the highs you never forget as a player.

Buffon may be a bit smaller, but he has everything that you want from a great goalkeeper. He relays his confidence to his defence, and they feel that they have a great keeper behind them. Everybody can make mistakes, but his consistency level is amazing. You never see him have a bad game.

I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think, ‘All right, that one out of these seven is really good; it’s a keeper.’ But on this second album, to be honest, I probably wrote about 50 songs where I was just trying to write a hit.

It’s hard to get a chance in the Premier League for an English keeper.