Beginning Quote by Willy Caballero

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

— Edouard Mendy

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 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

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

Over the years I think I have developed a better understanding of being a goalkeeper - and I mean on and off the pitch.…

— Lukasz Fabianski

Why did I choose to be a goalkeeper? I don't know - it is good question. I have asked myself many times when things…

— Joe Hart

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

— Gianluigi Buffon

If I was born again, I wouldn't be a football goalkeeper. They convinced me I had a lot of talent but it's not an…

— Victor Valdes

As a goalkeeper experience is a massive thing, and there is nothing better than playing games, which thankfully I managed to do at the…

— Jack Butland

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

I don't know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.

— Paul Scholes