“I don’t like people who drain my time and energy.”

Finishing fifth in the Premier League with a great team was a fine effort and we also got to the quarterfinals of the Europa League and nearly got past a Benfica side that went to the final.

It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now.

If you’ve had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it.

It’s probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success.

Until that issue is addressed, no Premier League team wants to be in the Europa League. That’s the reality, even if some don’t want to admit it.

We struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs.

It’s important that top clubs don’t lose sight of the fact that it’s the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

If you’ve seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term ‘dementors’ – people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy.

I didn’t listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn’t let it enter my brain.

You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said.

I would not want to be the Europa League in the current format, that’s for sure.

You always have to have faith in your own abilities and that has to be evident to your players.

You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent.

The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won’t have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

I’ve spent most of my life being extremely sensitive, drained, and nervous when around a lot of people.

Worrying about the future can drain your energy, and waste your time.

Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.

Activity without purpose is the drain of your life.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.