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

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

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

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

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.