What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

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

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.

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

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.