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.'

It was my dream to have an opportunity to become a professional player.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

You can't control games for 90 minutes; there will be moments where the opponents will show their quality.

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.