Robert Green Quotes

I went through five different coaching changes at Fulham.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

Your job is never secure as a football player - or coach.

I've been in football a long time now and I've seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel of the game.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

Kenny Dalglish was absolutely right: anyone that doesn't want to be at Liverpool can leave. Players will come and go.

I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.

It's normal in a top club that people change.

I went through 15 years as a coach at Spurs working under seven, eight different managers. And every time a manager went, you weren't sure whether you'd still be there. Some people might worry about these things but I never have.

The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.

When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.

I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know.

I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

Timing is everything in this league, and I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But I never lost my confidence. Atlanta was changing coaches and systems. I knew they'd make personnel changes.

Since I've been in the NBA, I've played for four different people. I don't know how much more you can go.

The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.

It's hard to compare the faith of Gareth Southgate and Roy Hodgson and my lack of chances at Chelsea because it's such a big club.

If it is possible I want to finish my career at Manchester United.

There's a lot of veteran players that, honestly, being comfortable where they play is more important. And that's just not me.

I was at Marseille and had four coaches in four seasons. Changing coaches is nothing new.

I was not happy when we lost Morgan Schneiderlin, Nat Clyne and other players of that quality at Southampton.

Every single year I was on the block - could be cut, could be released.