Emmanuel Petit Quotes
If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion every day.
I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.
France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.
I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.
If I had the choice I would live in London. There are a few things I don't like about England but its just details, I don't really think about them but I really like England and I really like London.
A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.
Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here.
People want to be connected to be everyone at anytime. They want to talk about their passions, they want to talk about their private life, they want to have the right to speak.
Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.
I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.
I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.
