You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.

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

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

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

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.

Your approach and response to issues will determine how people will relate and deal with you per time.

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.

The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

The body is a rock; the arms are snakes

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.