"Attitude is everything. Talent is not enough. It’s a mental game."
Emi Martinez has always believed he would get his chance to establish himself as our No 1 - and as he prepares to play in his first FA Cup final, he feels that self-belief has been rewarded at last.
"You have to deal with frustration when you don’t play, you have to deal with the pressure. There are no excuses," he said. "A second-choice goalkeeper can sometimes say, ‘Oh, it’s a lack of games, it’s different when you train compared to when you play’ but there is no excuse if you do everything right.