Robert Green Quotes

I think the mixture of pressure and elation after winning the world title took some getting used to and that impacted on my personal life big-time.

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.

I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.

There's nothing like being on the field, taking on blocks, chasing after fast guys.

I don't believe that there's a footballer out there that only thinks about football.

I think that's just the way football is supposed to be played, at a high speed.

When you put your helmet on and you're in the race, I find that's just everything there is in the world.

It's in that moment - when millions of fans are holding their breath as the football hurtles towards me at 80 mph, and all I have is within 0.42 seconds to react - that I need to feel mentally and physically prepared.

Football is a game. And sometimes I think about it way too much over situations that could be, you know, deadly.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.

The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest of what is left from two weeks of preparation on the sand. It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.

I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I’m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

I repeat his words in my head. What's going on? What's going on? Oh, well, since you asked, I got a bunch of tapes in the mail today from a girl who killed herself. Apparently, I had something to do with it. I'm not sure what that is, so I was wondering if I could borrow your Walkman to find out. 'Not much,' I say.

It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.