I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.

Most goals are scored between the posts.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas.

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.

Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.

You either WIN or you LEARN. Either way, you WIN!

I definitely hope that I'm improving. If I'm not, there's a problem - I'm just coasting.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

I am working on a list for collaborations and it's just another way to share your artistic talent with other artist.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

I love my family in Baltimore. But on their side of the family, I love their cousin Charles Thompson, because he's from New York like me.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.