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If you fail doing one thing, then learn the lesson and move on and find something else.
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.
Once I came out of the First Division with Norwich, it was great.
The closest you are going to get to playing international football is the Champions League.
Not playing is frustrating; you want to play in every game. But it's the life of a keeper. You'd rather be on the pitch than off.
No matter what the figures are in the workplace in terms of wages, you either feel a valued member of your staff, or you don't.
I'm the same as anyone else. If you are as good at a job as someone else, but they get three or four times more, you get a bit frustrated.
I was a professional at Norwich for 10 years and associated with the club for nearly 15.
People make mistakes in life and in football all the time.
With goalkeepers, when a team looks for a keeper, it looks for someone with experience.
I'm proud playing for the country, and I want to represent them as much as I can.
I've seen 18 managers go at the clubs I've been playing for. It's a part of football, isn't it?
If you read every newspaper or listened to every radio station and behaved as if your life depended on that, then you would be in an emotional turmoil. Essentially, you have to stay true to yourself. That is enough.
I can confidently say that if there is any criticism levelled at me, then I have done that already. It's what happens when you try to be honest and hard-working.
I want to walk away from football when I retire and say, 'I gave that everything,' and then I will do something else and give that everything, because that's me. That's the way I am, and I will do that.
If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.
I didn't go into football to earn money. It was because I liked playing football.
I've loved every moment and feel privileged to have enjoyed the career I have.
I hope to remain connected with the game that's given me so much in some capacity, whatever that proves to be.
Thank you to all of the fans and everybody connected with Norwich City, West Ham United, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United, Huddersfield Town, and Chelsea.
A special thank you must go to my mum and dad and entire family for your unwavering support. It means so much for them to have followed and watched nearly all my games, sharing my highs and lows.
There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.
Having worked with some of the characters in football and having to be nice to them - and knowing your job depends on you having to be nice to them - just doesn't appeal to me.
I can see what goes on defensively in a game, but 80 or 90 yards away, you can have no idea about the attack or how someone scored. I guess it's once a goalkeeper, always a goalkeeper.
I've been in teams that have struggled and been relegated.
You look at the guys playing in the Premier League, and they've got such quality.