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

If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

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

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.

Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.