My feelings towards Manchester City will never change; I'm eternally grateful to them as a football club. They took me as a 19-year-old boy from Shrewsbury Town, took somewhat of a punt on me, and I've had some fantastic times.
— Joe Hart
I was told I could play at the top long before I realised I could. A few people told me that. I've always had a 'name,' and I don't know how I got it, but I was blessed with people in the right situations saying good things about me.
There are places you should be and places you shouldn't, and situations you should not be getting yourself into. If you're turning up to games and not feeling right, that's when you've got to address the situation.
Whether it's at club level or with England, I have to stay on my toes and make that place my own.
I was a bowler - left arm, smash it down as fast as I could. I did a lot of work with Damian D'Oliveira, and I probably had a chance of doing that for a living. But when I reached 16, I knew I couldn't carry on playing both football and cricket, and I was already in the Shrewsbury squad.
Why did I choose to be a goalkeeper? I don't know - it is good question. I have asked myself many times when things have not being going well.
There are plenty of downsides in life for anyone, including me. Everyone has their own personal worries. Everyone has normal families, with normal arguments. But in football, things are going really well, and that's what I want to maintain. That's one thing I can keep on top of.
It doesn't change the way I am, but I do totally understand how you're looked at as a footballer, especially by children. I don't claim I can shape their lives, but there's no harm in having good manners and being seen to play the game properly.
I will never go into a game aggressive because I will cost my team the victory if I am reckless. If I have got a personal vendetta with someone, or I don't like the way someone has done something to me in the game, I am just going to have to get over it.
I'm someone who wants to do well at their job. I am completely in what I am doing.
I just love diving around in goal. Being able to do it for my country is amazing and I remind myself of it every single time I pull on an England shirt.
I think it's important to feel good so that the football can take care of itself. If everything else is organised and ready to go, then you're free to play football.
Whatever I'm capable of, I need to be the best I can.
I love football, and I love to play, and I want to play until I physically can't - whatever age that is.
I'll keep supporting. I'll be an England fan no matter what, and I'll stay true to my word.
I absolutely love playing in Europe. The Premier League is fantastic, but once you get a taste for it, it's the place to be.
I'm experienced. I've played at the highest level for a long time and done a lot of things in the game.
When you become a professional footballer, there's no written contract that says you have to strive to play first-team football.
You can't live in fear of preventing mistakes.
I don't believe footballers have to live like monks.
Playing at Birmingham helped me grow as a goalkeeper: it made me better all round, being a regular part of a team.
I love football, and if I could, I would play every day, even if it is my job.
I'm going to keep loving football. That's one thing I'm most proud of: my hunger and desire for the game has not stopped.
If crowds give you abuse, there's no point standing there and giving it them back; you just move on.
Criticism certainly doesn't affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I'm sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.
I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.
I am trying to grow and I am trying to improve every single day.
You have teams on and off the field. You have your team off the field in terms of your family, friends, and people that you work with, and then you have your team on the field. You have to give to receive and be there for people and hope that they do the same for you.
I always supported England as a boy; I think it's great to support your national team.
I need to improve and improve all the time because I'm still learning the game, and the game is changing all the time.
I'm cool with Pep. I think he's a top manager.
It's a big moment, a heart-rate moment. It's all in the preparation for me. Watching the various takers, I can prepare as best I can. I can prepare, too, with my own team-mates - they practise, which, in turn, helps me practise trying to save penalties. I want as much confidence as I can in the preparation and then take it from that.
It's difficult when you're on loan, especially when you're not a young player who people may have sympathy for.
Stuff out of my hands is out of my hands. How people want to play it is up to them.
International football's not always about playing the top three in the world - it's about going to some of the tougher places around Europe and playing real tough games.
You can be humbled as a goalkeeper. You have to accept that.
To go into a game wondering, 'What if I do this wrong?' is a terrible way to think. You just have to believe in what you can do.
There are too many haters.
I am a lucky boy. Being a keeper is something in me and which I enjoy doing.
I'm going to continue being me through the good times and the bad.
I've always found that you can enjoy your life a lot more if you can get on with people. If I don't get on with someone, I don't necessarily go out of my way to be best friends, but you learn as you grow up how to get on with people.
In the past, I've been lucky enough to receive some high praise, but when the experts have a go, I'm usually not particularly interested in what they have got to say.
I keep my focus on the stuff that matters to me, and that is pretty much how I live my life.
You have got to let the ball come to you as a keeper.
I've always had people around me who will love me for me, regardless of whether the football went well or if I'd have had to go down a different route. I've always felt that no matter where I've been or what I've been doing, I've always had that to fall back on, which is comforting.
'I don't know' are three words I don't like saying.
I've got quite a few people who I hold close to my heart and I trust, and a lot of footballing opinions that I care about.
In my opinion, I think loans are for younger players trying to improve who have got the whole world in front of them.
As far as I'm concerned, it's just my mum getting it out there saying she wants her son to be England captain.
I need to feel part of something.
