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

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

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.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists