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.

At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn't want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.

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

There is nothing stable in the world

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.