65 Quotes by Robbie Fowler

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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