“I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.”

If I had a Paul Scholes in my team, everything would be around him. At Manchester United, they saw it like that, but I think Paul Scholes is one of the best I’ve played against in this league, and seen anywhere.

Ledley King would get the ball off you without you even noticing he’s the only defender in England who doesn’t hold onto you, and he sometimes still gets the ball off my feet easily.

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine… don’t get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it’s not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine… don’t get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it’s not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine… don’t get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it’s not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

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.

All this happened, more or less.

Don’t do it tomorrow. Do it now. There might not be tomorrow.

Awareness without action is worthless.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.