It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.