Age Quote by Tim Howard

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 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 five when my uncle, who also coached my brother, took me to the local pitches. That's where my passion for goalkeeping began.

— Gianluigi Donnarumma

I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put…

— Hope Solo

I started playing soccer when I was 4 because my sister was doing it. It was my first organized sport, and my parents thought…

— Kelley O'Hara

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

I have been playing soccer since I was about four years old. You always hope you can reach the top of the profession, that…

— James Rodriguez

I turned goalkeeper. My father had been one and we had a goal in the back garden. He'd taught me a bit about it…

— Simon Mignolet

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

Growing up, I'd never play goalie in street hockey or at shinny. I liked playing out. So the entire time I played goal, I…

— Martin Brodeur

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as…

— Mia Hamm