Once a gunner, always a gunner

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.

If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal

You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.

I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.

If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol

If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.

What makes a good captain is someone that can lead and someone who dies for their team.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too.

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.