My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

It was 911 calling me. If you can believe it. Them calling me.

Turn your pride into love in order to fill your life with joy.

I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

Not every artist is a role model.

A lot of people wonder how a 21-year-old with average power (I finished 89th in driving distance) can be so successful. The answer is simple: I know how to score.

Whether our fear is absolutely realistic or out of proportion in our minds, our greatest refuge is Jesus Christ.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.