I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.

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

Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose--something that, if gone, will tear away a part of me.

We are all looking for someone to save us.

Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.

I know more Australian people than I know New Zealand persons. I feel like there's a real gap in my education.

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

Every single model wants to be in Sports Illustrated, and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.