Even at the age of 33 I was one of the most flexible at Arsenal when it came to my back muscles.
I have been very encouraged by President Obama’s call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama’s intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.
All my career, I’ve played in great teams – Marseille was a great team, Arsenal was a great thing, but we never won a trophy. With Manchester City, first year, it happened, and it was just a big relief.
Arsenal showed the door to too many people. Why did they let Thierry Henry go? When I found out about his move I realised the Arsenal I played for were finished.
As a child I dreamed of playing for Arsenal, because I loved them. Now I hate them for the way Wenger treated me.
I’m not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it’s fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.
Arsenal has always been special for me.
I won the title with Arsenal in 2004 and it is harder to defend it the following season.
It was frustrating at Arsenal, obviously. For a year and a half, it went from bad to worse. I could no longer continue like that. I could not bring myself to spend another year at Arsenal and remain a reserve, even a second reserve.
How do you develop? I think that’s about battling for every title. That’s something that is in Arsenal’s history, and it’s in my history as well. And I want that to continue.
I used to watch Arsenal games with my father, and it has a special place in my heart.
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
I remember my first Arsenal training session and Sol Campbell going straight through me. I had a bit of a bruise, but I got straight back up and carried on. I didn’t want to show them that it hurt.
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.
In Camden, it’s just the atmosphere that gets me. It’s simple. It’s nice. It’s real. And it’s the people, too. I like to interact with them because they are normal and I am normal. People probably don’t expect an Arsenal player to come to Camden Lock and, basically, be a normal guy.
There are lots of big clubs, and having played for Arsenal, they are also one of them. It’s a huge club, and I was there.
When you play for Arsenal you have to try to win all competitions.
Fans should remember Thierry Henry when he joined Arsenal. He didn’t score much before becoming an icon of this club.
Arsenal are my boyhood club.
We in no way are naive to think that just because Russia and the United States agree to reduce their arsenals, that everyone else will fall in line.
We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn’t. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
I’m so proud to play for a big club like Arsenal.
I’m going to Arsenal to play.
At Arsenal, all we think about is how to attack, how to score, how to dribble, how to make a pass. We do not think so much about defence. Probably, for results, this is no good: but I like it.
If you ask my favourite team, I’ll say Arsenal. It is a club with a good philosophy, where youngsters get their chance.
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.
It doesn’t get any better than coming to a club like this, with so much history, like Arsenal. I’m hugely proud.
Arsenal have good fans but not that passionate since they moved from Highbury to the Emirates.
I used to watch United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal, when Gilberto Silva used to play there.
There’s always pressure on Arsenal to go out and win games and win trophies.
If you want to play at Arsenal you need to be top, top, you need precision.
Growing up, Arsenal were always such a big team, they were dominant and would always give you a tough game.
I remember being a young boy in Poland, watching David Seaman, Thierry Henry, Dennis Berkamp and others play for Arsenal. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would get a chance to play for the club I supported as a little kid.
We have loyalty at Arsenal, and players have shown that in the past.
I have a lot of things to learn but I think my football can be really good with the Arsenal.
Arsenal have always been a dream of mine and I always thought one day I would go there.
My wish was to finish my career at Arsenal, but there are always banana skins.
I want to use my time here at Arsenal to develop my strengths.
My target is to consolidate my place with Arsenal and to reach the Argentinian national team as number one.
I like to let my football do the talking, I’m respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.
If you are Cesc, going to Barcelona, he will make more money, more sponsorship, and he is going home. What did Arsenal do to keep him at the club? Absolutely nothing. Now the fans say he is not loyal. When you leave Arsenal, you become a traitor, regardless of what you have done.
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.
Picatinny Arsenal is essential to the safety of our women and men in the field and to delivering a qualitative edge for our military.
Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
If someone from ‘Arsenal Fan TV’ says this guy needs to do this or that I’m not going to listen to him. They’re entitled to their opinion and the way they want to do it. If people find it funny, then go watch it.
Being at meal time on time is simple but important for the team. You need the discipline. Every top club is like that. With Arsenal and Villarreal it was the same – strict.
I love watching English football. There are teams in the Premier League that play a style similar to Spanish teams – Arsenal, for example – but in general, it’s much quicker; there’s so much pace.
If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.
I think it’s hard to see a club like Arsenal not playing in the Champions League.
Whenever I play against Arsenal – and this is just a personal thing – I go up and think ‘let me whack the first one, then we will see who wants it.’
Whenever something in the system changes, you have to prove yourself again. But wherever you go, you have to prove that you’re better than whoever else is on the team. At a team like Arsenal, that’s always going to be hard so I always have to be on it in training and matches.
Even against big teams like Arsenal, who have a lot of quality, you need a lot of quality as well.
Women have this arsenal of stuff where if they have a pimple or they have something, you guys can cover that up. Guys don’t really have that – and it’s also a little bit taboo.
Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.
I literally remember when I made my audition tape for ‘Buffy’. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for ‘Buffy’, and they were so excited.
I generally try to bowl one-on-one with the ‘keeper and bowl all the deliveries in my arsenal so that he can have a good look.
Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it’s getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.
I feel really good at Arsenal.
I felt Arsenal had let a lot of players go. When Thierry left I felt it was time for me to do something different and challenging.
The number of French players Arsenal have brought through is very impressive, and many of the players who arrived, especially the young ones, were unknown when they arrived to the general public.
I think Eddie Murphy is the greatest comedian. I do think that Richard Pryor is the Godfather, but Eddie Murphy, in my opinion, has every comedic category in his arsenal. He can roast you. He can freestyle. He can host. He was LeBron James before we even saw LeBron James.
I wasn’t playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn’t enough for me, and I wanted more.
For Arsenal it’s very important to have a player like Matteo Guendouzi. He’s a good player and I think he can make a success with Arsenal. I hope so. He’s a great player, he’s very talented and he’s very confident.
