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.
— Robert Green
A goalkeeping unit is different from outfield; the psychology is different.
If you fail doing one thing, then learn the lesson and move on and find something else.
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.
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've been in teams that have struggled and been relegated.
There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.
I hope to remain connected with the game that's given me so much in some capacity, whatever that proves to be.
If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.
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.
With goalkeepers, when a team looks for a keeper, it looks for someone with experience.
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.
The closest you are going to get to playing international football is the Champions League.
I've played with, and against, some of the best players in the world and have experienced so much that professional football has to offer.
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.
I want to play every game.
Football's not particularly crazy. Once you are in it, you're in the eye of the storm, and it's quite nice.
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.
There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability.
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.
Loftus Road is a great place to play football. The fans get behind you, and it's a great atmosphere.
People make mistakes in life, and you get on with it.
I can see what goes on defensively in a game, but 80 or 90 yards away, you can have no idea about the attack or how someone scored. I guess it's once a goalkeeper, always a goalkeeper.
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.
I've loved every moment and feel privileged to have enjoyed the career I have.
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've seen 18 managers go at the clubs I've been playing for. It's a part of football, isn't it?
People make mistakes in life and in football all the time.
No matter what the figures are in the workplace in terms of wages, you either feel a valued member of your staff, or you don't.
Once I came out of the First Division with Norwich, it was great.
I've had the joy of representing some fantastic clubs, all of whom have helped to shape me in their own varying way.
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.
In international football, chances don't come along very often.
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.
That's football. It's like in any walk of life: you get some people who are going to try more than others.
I've been in the Championship before, and it didn't kill me.
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 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 look at the guys playing in the Premier League, and they've got such quality.
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.
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.
I didn't go into football to earn money. It was because I liked playing football.
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.
I'm proud playing for the country, and I want to represent them as much as I can.
I was a professional at Norwich for 10 years and associated with the club for nearly 15.
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.
The Premiership is where you want to be; everyone does. Otherwise, you question people's ambition.
Representing my country will always be one of my proudest achievements, and I feel honoured to have played for England.
I came to QPR looking for a new challenge after six years at West Ham, a wonderful time capped off by promotion at Wembley.
