"I want to play every game."
"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."
"You want to be paid. It is your job. It is like anyone else turning up at an office."
"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."
"Eventually, I'd like to have some sort of role like a chief executive in a football club."
"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."
"If you walked into my house, there wouldn't be one thing to do with football in there."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is football. I'm not a politician."
"You go through mental preparation the night before the game and prepare for moments of trauma in a game when it happens."
"It's about being steady and taking the rough with the smooth, but that's life as a goalkeeper."
"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."
"Tell me why is it easier if you know the number one? You prepare as though you are number one anyway."
"Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge."
"In international football, chances don't come along very often."
"I came to QPR looking for a new challenge after six years at West Ham, a wonderful time capped off by promotion at Wembley."
"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."
"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."
"Representing my country will always be one of my proudest achievements, and I feel honoured to have played for England."
"I've had the joy of representing some fantastic clubs, all of whom have helped to shape me in their own varying way."
"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."
"The Premiership is where you want to be; everyone does. Otherwise, you question people's ambition."
