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Martin Keown was really competitive but Thierry Henry was similar, he wanted to win every game.

I love Africa. I am very grateful for everything I have in Europe but everything I'm learning I want to help my continent to get better - in football as well.

My dream is to win the World Cup with an African team, for my continent.

For me, life is about being happy. Life is about enjoying and that's it.

When I played football I wanted to make people happy. This is the way I am. I can't be someone else.

Stephen Keshi is a good coach and he has changed Nigeria into a respectable team.

My job is to try do the best for the team, like every other player.

I have always been the kind of player who tries to help those around me.

I can learn so much from working with Brendan Rodgers, he is a top manager.

Every game is challenging and sometimes things don't go well for you but you need to be able to come back and carry on fighting.

A season is like a marathon and there will be plenty of ups and downs.

There is great respect for Liverpool in the Ivory Coast.

I love playing at the same club as my brother.

I won the title with Arsenal in 2004 and it is harder to defend it the following season.

It is all about working hard, focusing and doing our job.

I will keep playing for the national team until I feel I can't offer them anything.

I was better than certain players at Manchester City but I was left on the bench. Before I left the club, I told the people in charge that they would regret letting me go.

Managers come to clubs bringing players with them and they want to pick them at all costs - whether they are any good or not.

Yaya was much better than Sergio Busquets at Barcelona. But he was behind him in the pecking order and he found that hard to accept. I advised him to come to Manchester City while I was still there.

When you do a good tackle, or block, the Kop they really appreciate that and they let you know it.

Whether I start or not, I will do whatever I can in whatever way to play my part.

You need to be honest, even if you hurt people.

As players, we have the best job in the world and if the manager said, 'You haven't worked hard enough, you will only get half your wages this week,' it would make the players fight harder.

I'm a professional footballer and, to me, playing regularly is the most important thing; money is secondary.

You cannot have a place in the team - even if you are an international - if you don't show what you can do in training.

I had problems with certain players at Arsenal, especially one, whose name I will not say because I don't want to feed the controversy.

I have never looked to put a spoke in anyone's wheel at all.

My wish was to finish my career at Arsenal, but there are always banana skins.

Kieran Tierney is a lot like Ashley Cole in the way that he bombs up and down the flanks and that he is also so physically strong. He plays every game as well. He is not the tallest but he is a fighter and he is strong. He crosses, gets back and defends. He is a very good player.

Kieran Tierney's work rate is just amazing. He gives 100 percent in every game, he makes lots of runs and makes lots of assists too. He defends, he goes forward, he is every inch the modern left back.

The only thing you can bring players in with is money or, if you are like Arsenal, you wait for your youngsters to come in, but that can take a while.

When the league starts you know that anything can happen.

It's not easy when you have to make a lot of changes.

Sometimes people, not the players, play the game before it's started and that's a problem because there are no small teams in the Premiership.

We are professional players and when we go out we want to play well and win.

Any team can fall down but it's about how they react to defeat that matters.

Baresi was not tall but he was a great player, while Cannavaro was the best defender in the world - hopefully I will be the same.

I remember the best defenders were Baresi and Cannavaro - you don't have to be really tall.

I want to talk to players, that is the way I am. That is what I bring. I will keep doing that, it doesn't matter what happens, anywhere I go.

For me the most important is the club, the team.

You know I've been at Arsenal which is a top club and every week you have to fight for your place.

For me, I'm a fighter and I like to play for big clubs because that's where you improve yourself. Every day at training you have to give a hundred per cent to be picked by your manager.

Every season when I win a trophy I'm just so happy.

When you play for big clubs you have more chance to win trophies.

Always, always, for a team like City, it's difficult to go for a season without winning one trophy.

Wenger is a top manager, he has shown that unbelievably. The thing I like is this manager can make an average player one of the best players in the world.

In official competitions there are mistakes you don't make or you pay for it dearly.

We all want to be champion.

With team spirit, you can win anything.

Individuals are very important but team spirit is the key - it is the most important thing.

If you want to be successful, you need to work as a team.

When you don't play, you need to support the team and your team-mates need to feel that you are behind them fully.

You can't ever give up. When you refuse to lose games, you often find yourself winning them.

You know that in a lot of games it is only decided towards the end. Players get tired and when you have that push from your fans you can feel the difference.

Everybody wants to play for Pep.

Ask anybody - every day at training I give everything.

I need to work hard and that is alright by me.

It is very difficult to leave your team for a month to play in the African Nations. But you are playing for your country, for your father, for your family, for your pride.

I think it's very important to have a good defensive team.

I think you say that strikers win you games, but defenders win titles and I think that's really important.

It's very important to know what you are facing, whether you are going to be part of the team or just a squad player.

I think it's amazing how Ramadan can make you really strong.

I've been observing Ramadan during all the years I've been in football. It's very important that you eat well. It's important that you eat the right food because you can gain weight or you can have less food in your body.

For me, Ramadan is not an easy time because it's a time when I need to work much harder, because I need to help my teammates. That's the way I see things.

Ramadan is an important part of Islam, and when you are observing it, God is happy with you and you have to have a big celebration.

Wenger built this club and it is hard to imagine Arsenal without him.

Any manager can go through a really difficult time.

I have experienced a lot in football and if the young players need advice, they know they can ask me.

I will always be ready when the team needs me.

When you're at a big team like Liverpool, you can't expect to start every game.

Sometimes when you come every day to training you can't realise how big it is to be a footballer.

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