Manuel Neuer

“I have a good record in shoot-outs. In such moments, I'm always confident of making at least a couple of stops; I always feel the taker is under more strain. Worrying is the kicker's job, as he's expected to score, while I have nothing to lose.”

“As a keeper, you can't be afraid.”

“You cannot compare warm-ups with World Cup games.”

“If you look at the history of Manchester United, they are always a big side, so there is no time of underestimating them.”

“You can plan, but what happens on a football field cannot be predicted.”

“In Germany, the football association is the best.”

“With Bayern, we want a lot of ball possession and to control the play, so I operate sometimes like the 11th outfield player. Thus I am included a lot into the build-up play and have a lot of touches of the ball.”

“It's easier to fine tune in club football, and you have the chance to win the Champions League every year.”

“In Germany, Jens Lehmann was a model style for a German goalkeeper.”

“A fit player has good and bad times during a season, and you have that in rehab, too.”

“As players at Bayern, we're not interested in any boredom - we're interested in picking up three points each game.”

“The coach put me in goal, and back then, we were playing on bone-hard ground: red ash; we even trained on black ash, which was worse. That's not easy for a goalkeeper. My mother was always taking out her sewing kit for the countless holes in my training pants. For a long time, I had to buy my own gear.”

“I do everything I can for the team's success.”

“I've trained under a lot of coaches and always picked up elements that develop a player.”

“I'm the 11th field player.”

“I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.”

“Personal success means nothing if it isn't aligned with the success of the team. I consider myself to be a team player more than anything else.”

“As for being the best goalkeeper in the world, it's been written occasionally, but I'd never say it myself.”

“I have three goalkeepers who really inspired me. Jens Lehmann was my idol because he played for Schalke and was really progressive in the way he developed the position in Germany. I also have a lot of respect for all that Oliver Kahn achieved with the national team. Outside Germany, I would add that Edwin van der Sar was a big role model.”

“Winning the treble was confirmation for me that joining Bayern rather than moving abroad was the right decision.”