It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

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.

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

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

The man of wisdom is never of two minds

The best things happen to those who don't wait.

Let nothing human be foreign to me

If you achieve good results using a poor method, isn't that a much greater achievement than starting from better methods. - Rider

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we take it what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

Maybe I want a black eye. Did you think of that?

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

I always take things step by step and match by match.