As I say, you get labeled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

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

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

Inspiring someone else to follow their dreams is the hope of anyone who has the courage to follow their own.

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.