I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.

At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn't want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.

If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion every day.

I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.

France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.

If I had the choice I would live in London. There are a few things I don't like about England but its just details, I don't really think about them but I really like England and I really like London.

A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.

Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here.

People want to be connected to be everyone at anytime. They want to talk about their passions, they want to talk about their private life, they want to have the right to speak.

Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.

I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.

There's enough of everything to go around for everybody but not without awareness and positive beliefs about abundance.

Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.