It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.

Most goals are scored between the posts.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas.

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me.

Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.

Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

I think it takes a truly strong man to cherish a woman.