Quotes About Career

I got a phone call from David Moyes: he was interested in me going out to Real Sociedad, and I was quite keen on the idea if I didn't get the Premier League club that I wanted. Going abroad appealed to me.

I've had to work so hard in my career to get to this point, from leaving City and going to the Championship to work my way back up. I believed I could do it, and I'm grateful to Burnley and Tottenham for letting me do it in the Premier League.

I've loved every second of playing my first season in the Premier League. I feel like I belong here, and this is the level I want to be at for the rest of my career.

I am sure that the important managers always want to work here in the Premier League.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

Moving to London enables me to fulfil a dream and a further step in my career. The Premier League has always represented a great challenge for me.

For me, it is a dream come true to play in the Premier League as a No. 1 goalkeeper.

It was always a dream of mine to play in the Premier League.

If you look at my past in the Premier League, without going into too many details, I don't think I had much of a chance at any of them, for different reasons.

I have always said that one day I would like to play in the Premier League.

When I am 32, 33 and I realise that I can't keep my level or it is dropping, it will be a stop abroad where you might not play at the highest level and not keep up with Premier League.

All of the players want to play in the Premier League. I think it's about being in the right place at the right time.

Of course, as a young boy it was always my dream to either go to the Premier League or the Bundesliga.

I've shown I can perform at Premier League level and that's where I want to be playing for the next few years. That's where I want to stay, it's the big league and I'm driving towards being there for as long as I possibly can.

I arrived in the Premier League late at 29 years old - you still have to live 50 years after football. You do your best for yourself and your family. You've got to fight for what you believe.

I would like to return to the Premier League but I think if you put that question to more or less every manager in the world, then they would like to do it as well.

As it is, I played 99 per cent of my football in the Premier League and I'd proud of that fact. That's where my history is.

I don't really have a bad premiere experience. They're exciting at first. I think, when you first get into the business, you're excited about going down the line and seeing what that's like.

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

I've said for years I could never figure out why Calgary ever drafted me. When I got there, I think they had eight or nine right wingers already. These guys were premiere players. It's not like they were extremely late in their careers, either.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

I work when I'm alone, but I have children and a family and a job, so alone time is at a premium.

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

I've had a lot of really good preparation. I've coached a lot of games around the world.