Robbie Fowler Quotes (30 Quotes)


    People keep on asking me, but I'm as much in the dark as everyone else - and all I can do is score goals. I've not finished that many games. But it's the manager's prerogative - he's got a decision to make, and if he doesn't think I'm fit enough it's up to him.

    When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era.

    Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

    I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.

    I've made plenty of mistakes, I know I have, and during my time as a footballer things have changed so that the spotlight is now even more intense.


    It is not for me to say whether I have done well enough, personally I believe I have not done too badly, but the manager's decision is final. If he wants me to stay, great, but I have got to give him a bit of a headache by scoring goals and playing well. Hopefully I am doing that. Until the manager says otherwise, I will just have to go about my business and hopefully do what I do best.

    We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.

    Stuart is good for Manchester City. It is not hard to see his passion for the game, and his commitment,

    It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

    To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense,

    It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.

    The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

    I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

    I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

    It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

    When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.

    A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

    For me to get anywhere near him is a fantastic achievement and to surpass him by one - I'm delighted. I grew up an Everton fan but Kenny is a proper Liverpool legend and to get anywhere near him is fantastic.

    An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

    I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

    I was a cheeky little lad who played football every night, pissed around with his mates, and overnight, literally overnight, came fame.

    There was a season and a half at City when I felt as though my football world was falling apart, when I felt for the first time that I didn't want to play, that maybe my career had come to an end and I should look for something else,

    Last season I counted four fingers at them for the number of European Cups Liverpool had won. Next time, I can just stick my whole hand up.

    Honest to God, I'm so happy it's frightening I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.

    If I'm honest, until I got married, I was always at me mum's, even when I had my own flat, and she carried on cooking and washing and ironing for me.

    Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families.

    If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

    I don't really thinks the kids care much these days - they just tell you to f off.

    After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.

    As revealing as anything in Fowler's autobiography is the claim that his financial advisor, George Scott, encouraged Peter Ridsdale to walk away when the bidding reached double figures. It was, he said, a crazy price, but on November 29 the deal was done. If they had been a bit tougher in the transfer market, they could have got me for half that, ... It was crazy and maybe typical of what was going on.


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