Quotes from Robert Green

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Representing my country will always be one of my proudest achievements, and I feel honoured to have played for England.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.