It's amazing knowing that a club like Manchester United is interested in you. It's a good feeling.

The only thing I think about is helping the team, respecting all my team-mates, not being selfish.

Stressing out over how you look, what you're wearing, or when you're getting home is not worth it.

I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.

I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

It's different to play midfielder and striker or No. 10, but I enjoy all the positions I can play.

The team that wants it the hardest wins, but there have been times when I came out as the villain.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

Do not take hold of a past that no longer serves you, but embrace the stillness that is right now.

I want to trace my own path by doing the things I have been doing, winning titles, reaching goals.

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.

When you're young and desperate to hold on to a place in the team you do whatever is asked of you.

It doesn't matter if you have the best individual players, as you need to have the best team unit.

With [Samuel] Eto'o, I talked a lot about his great career and how I could become a better player.

Tuchel shows me how to move and what I could do better. He wants to take me to absolute top level.

Every big player who leaves Arsenal is a massive loss. But no player here is bigger than the club.

Arsenal are a great club, but after eight years, sometimes you feel that you need a new challenge.

They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

I'm always a big advocate for adapting to your new team, your new country and your new team-mates.

If you offer a player a new contract, and a good contract, that means you want to keep the player.

I accept that everyone is entitled to his opinion and as a coach, I don't run away from criticism.

Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.

Marseille would be the only place that I'd like to play in France, but I think it's not realistic.

I know how to score goals. That's what I've done all my life, and that's what I'll continue doing.

Especially for the goalkeeper, you have to feel the confidence of every staff member and the team.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

The treatment of Wayne Rooney told me something about the way England fans view the national team.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Pep Guardiola saw me as a central player in his system, which my style of play fit into perfectly.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

I always said the same: I try to do my best, to support the team, to score goals, to win victories.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

I am always open to learning. I am always open to adapting myself to a new role and a new position.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

People compare me to Verratti, and I do really like him, but we have very different playing styles.

To put on an England shirt to represent your country is a great honour. That feeling never changes.

I've done a lot of great things playing for this country and this national team in the youth stage.

I think I have a lot of experience, especially of the big matches, and that is an advantage always.

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