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.

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.

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.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.