Robbie Fowler Quotes & Sayings

Stuart is good for Manchester City. It is not hard to see his passion for the game, and his commitment.
(on Stuart Pearce) — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

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

Houllier couldn't deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense. — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

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

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. — Robbie Fowler

I don't really think kids care much these days - they just tell you to f*** off. — Robbie Fowler

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

If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back.
(on re-signing for Liverpool) — Robbie Fowler

I do a fair bit for children's charities. The big ones I support in Liverpool are Zoe's Place Baby Hospice, and Claire House Children's Hospice. I donate money and time but the time is what they value the most. If my inclusion at any event they're doing, helps them to raise more money, then of course I'll be there. — Robbie Fowler

Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.
(on playing for Liverpool again) — Robbie Fowler

The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family. — Robbie Fowler

As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was focused on playing football. But I got onboard with this financial adviser and I heeded his advice, and that was my smartest money decision. — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting. — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already ... — Robbie Fowler

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived — Robbie Fowler

I used to hate Ian Rush when I was young, because I was a devout Evertonian in those days, and he seemed to score every time Liverpool played against us. It's strange to think he used to support Everton too when he was a kid. He was brilliant to me at Anfield always giving me good advice. — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler

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

I hate talking about football. I just do it, you know? — Robbie Fowler

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. — Robbie Fowler