When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

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

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

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.