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

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.

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.

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 took a step back, shaking my head, wishing I could place a gnarly black hex on him. My daddy taught me better than that.

Some problems were generational

My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Opposing [Donald]Trump aligns you with Hamas.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.