Robert Green Quotes

Robert Green

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 18, 1980

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

Robert Green

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.

Robert Green

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

Robert Green

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.

Robert Green

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

Robert Green

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.

Robert Green

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

Robert Green

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.

Robert Green

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.

Robert Green

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.

Robert Green

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.

Robert Green

It is football. I'm not a politician.

Robert Green

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

Robert Green

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

Robert Green

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.

Robert Green

Tell me why is it easier if you know the number one? You prepare as though you are number one anyway.

Robert Green

Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.

Robert Green

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

Robert Green

I want to play every game.

Robert Green

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

Robert Green