The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.

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 legal system has been designed to rob the bank accounts of the common people.

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

There were some ups and downs. But it is about how you overcome those ups and downs.

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers

When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.

Here's the thing: I am not beautiful. I'm pretty. I'll allow that much. Pretty. But I'm not the girl boys long for.

I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.

It is quite a thing. There are so many men, all endlessly trying to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me lest I fall.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.