Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Hart - Page 2

I've got quite a few people who I hold close to my heart and I trust, and a lot of footballing opinions that I care about.

Whatever I'm capable of, I need to be the best I can.

Criticism certainly doesn't affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I'm sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.

I keep my focus on the stuff that matters to me, and that is pretty much how I live my life.

It's a big moment, a heart-rate moment. It's all in the preparation for me. Watching the various takers, I can prepare as best I can. I can prepare, too, with my own team-mates - they practise, which, in turn, helps me practise trying to save penalties. I want as much confidence as I can in the preparation and then take it from that.

There are plenty of downsides in life for anyone, including me. Everyone has their own personal worries. Everyone has normal families, with normal arguments. But in football, things are going really well, and that's what I want to maintain. That's one thing I can keep on top of.

When you become a professional footballer, there's no written contract that says you have to strive to play first-team football.

Playing at Birmingham helped me grow as a goalkeeper: it made me better all round, being a regular part of a team.

I think it's important to feel good so that the football can take care of itself. If everything else is organised and ready to go, then you're free to play football.

I've always had people around me who will love me for me, regardless of whether the football went well or if I'd have had to go down a different route. I've always felt that no matter where I've been or what I've been doing, I've always had that to fall back on, which is comforting.

I absolutely love playing in Europe. The Premier League is fantastic, but once you get a taste for it, it's the place to be.

'I don't know' are three words I don't like saying.

As far as I'm concerned, it's just my mum getting it out there saying she wants her son to be England captain.

I always supported England as a boy; I think it's great to support your national team.

You can't live in fear of preventing mistakes.

I need to improve and improve all the time because I'm still learning the game, and the game is changing all the time.

International football's not always about playing the top three in the world - it's about going to some of the tougher places around Europe and playing real tough games.

I've always found that you can enjoy your life a lot more if you can get on with people. If I don't get on with someone, I don't necessarily go out of my way to be best friends, but you learn as you grow up how to get on with people.

I'll keep supporting. I'll be an England fan no matter what, and I'll stay true to my word.

You have got to let the ball come to you as a keeper.

I'm cool with Pep. I think he's a top manager.

I love football, and I love to play, and I want to play until I physically can't - whatever age that is.

Why did I choose to be a goalkeeper? I don't know - it is good question. I have asked myself many times when things have not being going well.

I just love diving around in goal. Being able to do it for my country is amazing and I remind myself of it every single time I pull on an England shirt.

I was told I could play at the top long before I realised I could. A few people told me that. I've always had a 'name,' and I don't know how I got it, but I was blessed with people in the right situations saying good things about me.

I'm someone who wants to do well at their job. I am completely in what I am doing.

I don't believe footballers have to live like monks.

In the past, I've been lucky enough to receive some high praise, but when the experts have a go, I'm usually not particularly interested in what they have got to say.

There are too many haters.

To go into a game wondering, 'What if I do this wrong?' is a terrible way to think. You just have to believe in what you can do.

If crowds give you abuse, there's no point standing there and giving it them back; you just move on.

I was a bowler - left arm, smash it down as fast as I could. I did a lot of work with Damian D'Oliveira, and I probably had a chance of doing that for a living. But when I reached 16, I knew I couldn't carry on playing both football and cricket, and I was already in the Shrewsbury squad.

You have teams on and off the field. You have your team off the field in terms of your family, friends, and people that you work with, and then you have your team on the field. You have to give to receive and be there for people and hope that they do the same for you.

In my opinion, I think loans are for younger players trying to improve who have got the whole world in front of them.

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

I love football, and if I could, I would play every day, even if it is my job.

I am trying to grow and I am trying to improve every single day.

There are places you should be and places you shouldn't, and situations you should not be getting yourself into. If you're turning up to games and not feeling right, that's when you've got to address the situation.

Whether it's at club level or with England, I have to stay on my toes and make that place my own.

I'm going to keep loving football. That's one thing I'm most proud of: my hunger and desire for the game has not stopped.

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

Consistency is a huge thing at the top. It's hard to get to a good level, but once you get to a certain level, there's people who want your place.

I love the Premier League, I absolutely love Premier League games. Removing myself a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league, fantastic football is played in it.

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

I want to play football, I love to play football so if that opportunity is not going to be given there [Manchester City] then I'm going to have to look elsewhere and may have to make somewhere else my home.

I'm aware that at the big, big clubs stuff can change quickly, as can opinions and people in charge. Not everyone is going to like you, not everyone is going to want to play you and that's the business side of it, which I've grown into and I'm certainly not going to take personally.

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As a goalkeeper, you can't come off the bench for 10 minutes and prove your worth - it's either you're in or you're out.

If you're not going to win there is no point in fighting.

Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.

Every top team has got at least one top keeper. You need people to move, managers to change. You need something to happen for something to happen. You can't just charge in somewhere.

The best thing I can do is work hard, be ready to train every day, do my best for Torino, do my best when I represent my country and then hopefully the rest will take care of itself.