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

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

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

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.

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.

She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.

I love free speech.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

All you need to do to be a bit sexier is to smile once in a while!

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.