Robert Green

“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.”

“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 want to walk away from football when I retire and say, 'I gave that everything,' and then I will do something else and give that everything, because that's me. That's the way I am, and I will do that.”

“I'm proud playing for the country, and I want to represent them as much as I can.”

“I don't know; the gravity of playing football - you can't lose the comparison of other stuff. If you do, and football is the only thing, it becomes too serious.”

“It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out - thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'd love to be a third-choice keeper' - but your situation changes as your career goes on.”

“When I first started playing at Norwich, West Brom were in the Championship, got promoted, got relegated, got promoted, got relegated, and all the time, they were building until they eventually stayed up.”

“In international football, chances don't come along very often.”

“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.”

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

“Kevin Hitchcock, the goalkeeping coach at QPR, is an old mate, and I came to work for him on the understanding that I was first choice. If he'd said to me, 'We're also going to sign someone who's won Serie A five times and the Champions League and is one of the biggest names in South American football,' I would have thought twice before signing.”

“Thank you to all of the managers, coaches, and staff I've worked with and thank you to all of the team-mates that I've shared a dressing room with over the years.”

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

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

“If you walked into my house, there wouldn't be one thing to do with football in there.”

“Not playing is frustrating; you want to play in every game. But it's the life of a keeper. You'd rather be on the pitch than off.”

“I go along, play football, work as hard as I can, play as hard as I can, and then go home and spend time with my wife and kids.”

“If you read every newspaper or listened to every radio station and behaved as if your life depended on that, then you would be in an emotional turmoil. Essentially, you have to stay true to yourself. That is enough.”

“If you didn't relax away from your work, you'd tear your hair out in the middle of the night worrying about the next game when it's only a Monday and you're not playing until Saturday.”

“It's not that I don't take the job seriously. I'll do everything I can, humanly possible, to make myself better, but at the end of the day, if I don't relax and walk away from it knowing that I've done my stuff, then there's not much point.”