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.

The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

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.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.