If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?