I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.

If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal

You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.

I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.

If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol

If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.

What makes a good captain is someone that can lead and someone who dies for their team.

Once a gunner, always a gunner

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Free-will doesn't include shit-happens, unless that's the goal of one's intention.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

I'm a staunch Independant. Every time I think I am a Republican, they do something greedy, and every time I think I am a Democrat, they go and do someting stupid.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

Fowl never tastes as savory when you're hungry for venison.

Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis; Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man.