Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

Art takes time—Monet grew his gardensbefore he painted them.

single universe, many planets, many continents, and many countries, my country Nigeria will never be like others.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.

I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.

[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.