You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful.

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

Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

Don't stay watching happiness, make it.

God is so great, he does not even need to exist.