As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

I'm a footballer, I don't think past next Saturday.

Samir Nasri is well dressed every day. He always makes the effort. Always. I have never seen him look anything but immaculate.

I don't believe you can buy style. Money won't make you look good.

Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.

One man suffers to save many.

God doesn’t manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.

When giving up is not an option, you survive at any cost.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel, ' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it.

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.