Top 35 Robert Green Quotes

You go through mental preparation the night before the game and prepare for moments of trauma in a game when it happens.

I’ve loved every moment and feel privileged to have enjoyed the career I have.

Thank you to all of the fans and everybody connected with Norwich City, West Ham United, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United, Huddersfield Town, and Chelsea.

You want to be paid. It is your job. It is like anyone else turning up at an office.

I want to play every game.

The closest you are going to get to playing international football is the Champions League.

For over a decade, I had played every week, so to then have a season when you are not – that physical and mental high when you build up to a game and come down afterwards – was missing. It takes a while to adjust and is quite confusing.

You look at the guys playing in the Premier League, and they’ve got such quality.

I’ve got injured in one World Cup, been to a Euros and another World Cup, so I’ve been there, seen it, and had a taste of it.

You see people with a room full of their career achievements. Brilliant. Well done. That’s just not something I do. They’re in a bin bag in my mum and dad’s loft.

I didn’t go into football to earn money. It was because I liked playing football.

Having worked with some of the characters in football and having to be nice to them – and knowing your job depends on you having to be nice to them – just doesn’t appeal to me.

It’s about being steady and taking the rough with the smooth, but that’s life as a goalkeeper.

This is the difficulty with not picking up points away from home: the home games become that much more critical.

You take records with a pinch of salt. Take Usain Bolt: someone will be quicker than him one day. These things aren’t important.

I wouldn’t call going into the Premier League an ordeal. I would say the Championship is more of an ordeal than the Premier League.

In international football, chances don’t come along very often.

With goalkeepers, when a team looks for a keeper, it looks for someone with experience.

If you go to Spain and ask, ‘Who has the best goalkeepers?’ they will say, ‘The Spanish.’ If you go to Germany, they will say German goalkeepers, and Italy the same. You go to England and they say, ‘God knows!’

I’ve had the joy of representing some fantastic clubs, all of whom have helped to shape me in their own varying way.

Eventually, I’d like to have some sort of role like a chief executive in a football club.

I can confidently say that if there is any criticism levelled at me, then I have done that already. It’s what happens when you try to be honest and hard-working.

That’s football. It’s like in any walk of life: you get some people who are going to try more than others.

I’m the same as anyone else. If you are as good at a job as someone else, but they get three or four times more, you get a bit frustrated.

I hope to remain connected with the game that’s given me so much in some capacity, whatever that proves to be.

The Premiership is where you want to be; everyone does. Otherwise, you question people’s ambition.

I came to QPR looking for a new challenge after six years at West Ham, a wonderful time capped off by promotion at Wembley.

I was a professional at Norwich for 10 years and associated with the club for nearly 15.

Only knowing two hours before the game that you are playing is not a problem. You prepare as though you’re playing. If you don’t, that’s the mistake.

A special thank you must go to my mum and dad and entire family for your unwavering support. It means so much for them to have followed and watched nearly all my games, sharing my highs and lows.

There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability.

I have been around football a long time and know a lot about it, so if I have an opinion and don’t voice it, then it is a bit of a waste.

A goalkeeping unit is different from outfield; the psychology is different.

As a goalkeeper, you feel like if you’re treated like adults and have your position explained to you, you respect that. You might not agree with it, but you get on with it.

When the assessment of goalkeepers is made by people who have never actually stood there in a game and experienced it, then it’s hard to take it without a large pinch of salt.