Balls Quote by Hope Solo

I started to play, like all kids do, not as a goalkeeper. I liked scoring goals; in the end, it's all about scoring goals.

— Gianluigi Buffon

I was always a striker ever since I was a little boy. I always wanted to put the ball in the net and have…

— Romelu Lukaku

I didn't want to be a goalkeeper in the beginning because my dad and uncle used to play in goal and I knew how…

— Willy Caballero

You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.

— Gianluigi Buffon

When you're a kid you want to be a striker, you want to be scoring goals. I still want to be scoring goals! It's…

— Kasper Schmeichel

Sometimes I played as a goalkeeper with my brother and his friends - they were all older, and nobody wanted to go in goal,…

— Carles Puyol

When I was nine or ten, I had a chat with my coach and I asked if I could play in goal. I started…

— Ederson

Obviously, I couldn't imagine that my career would go so well. When I first started, I wanted to play out of goal. But there…

— Manuel Neuer

I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to go on goalie - coaches…

— Tim Howard

When I was little, I was always going to the goal. I've always wanted to score and create something, and I think it's always…

— Kevin De Bruyne

When I was younger, I wanted to score goals, and that was what Thierry Henry was doing, playing in a similar position to where…

— Aaron Wan-Bissaka

I started playing in goal because I 'struggled to run as fast as the strikers and the other players out there. I was 10…

— Ederson