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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.
Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.
I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.
When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?'
Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
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.
Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.