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I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...
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Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
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A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.
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In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.
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Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
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In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.
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As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.
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Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!
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People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.
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My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.
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You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.
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For a while, you could decide when you loan the player out whether he plays against you or not, and I always decided that he could play against us. But I must say I didn't get any protection from the media because when the player I loaned out scored against us, it's 'aaahhh, look at him, stupid...'
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If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.
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Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.
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Messi's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.
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Sometimes I see it a foul by an Arsenal player, but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.
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I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.
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What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
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If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
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It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.
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I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.
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What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.
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I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
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One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.