“It’s not about me, it’s about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals.”

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it’s both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more… not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

And I don’t watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

In New York it seems like there’s no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

I don’t like to plan anything.

I’m obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn’t spur me on-it’s helping my team to success. That’s my only aim. I’m not a machine.

When I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

I like to score a proper goal, you know – a passing move.

You learn from your mistakes.

It’s difficult to talk about Pele because I didn’t see him.

I may be French, but I’m playing for Arsenal.

And I don’t really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn’t even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.

A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Achievement has no color.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

There seems to be an attitude problem, as if we cannot shake ourselves out of a mindset of limited achievement.

I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.