Top 50 Kolo Toure Quotes

It can happen in football that you argue with somebody in training but when you are not even talking on the pitch something has to change.

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

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.

Anything can happen in life. You take your car, you drive your car every day in the same road and one day you just have no concentration – accident. That’s part of life. It can happen to anybody.

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

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

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

We all want to be champion.

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

I had six years at Arsenal but the last two were very difficult.

We all struggle in life at a certain point.

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

I’ve always been someone who has wanted to fight and to scrap for every penny I could.

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

When you win, it is fun. When you lose, it is OK. This is life.

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

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.

To win the World Cup is not about one player, it is about a squad.

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.

When the league starts you know that anything can happen.

I would never say a bad word about Mr Wenger, because he is somebody that makes players better players.

I give everything for my team to win but the most important thing is to enjoy every second of every minute.

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.

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

I know my qualities, I’ve got nothing to prove here in England, they know me here.

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.

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

I love Arsenal, it’s the club of my heart.

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

When I went to Arsenal I was working really hard on the weights, as Arsene Wenger is very keen on that.

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

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.

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

As a player, I had great respect for Gallas because he was older than me and in Africa when someone is older you have respect for them, but I think sometimes he took advantage of that in some ways.

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.

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

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

When I was a young boy I sold newspapers by the side of the road. I cleaned the shoes of people for less than a pound a time. I was 12 years old but I had to do it to eat because my family was so poor.

Strikers need to score goals and when they don’t their confidence is affected.

Everybody wants to play for Pep.

I will always be ready when the team needs me.

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.

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.

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

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.

When you play against a team such as Arsenal, Manchester United or Chelsea, you never know what will happen. But the key to the season is to win the games that you expect to win.

I am passionate about the FA Cup.

I love playing at the same club as my brother.

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

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