It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.

Making money from money is like aerobatics.

I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.

I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.

he captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.

I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.

. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .

I like to hang with the boys and I like to prove that I can be one of the boys, if not better.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.