Goal Quote by Mathew Horne

Playing at Birmingham helped me grow as a goalkeeper: it made me better all round, being a regular part of a team.

— Joe Hart

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

The team I used to play for as a kid, we changed goalkeeper every game. Finally I went in goal and we won -…

— Willy Caballero

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

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

I didn't always want to be a goalkeeper, but I didn't have much of a future further up the pitch.

— Edouard Mendy

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

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

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

I started out as a defender. I played as a full-back, and then I moved into the centre. I played defence right the way…

— Roberto Firmino

When I was 15, I had played as a striker and I was the only left-footed player in the team, so they put me…

— Andy Carroll

When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller.…

— Wayne Gretzky