Quotes

When you put on the shirt of France or Arsenal, you change. It's like a new skin. You become Superman.

I eat football, I sleep football, I breathe football. I'm not mad, I'm just passionate.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.

I would love this place [Arsenal's old stadium] to be my garden.

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

[Ledley] King would get the ball off you without you even noticing, he's the only defender in England who doesn't hold onto you, and he sometimes still gets the ball off my feet easily.

I'll never forget the club or him. I don't see Arsenal without Arsène Wenger.

You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realize that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

People always talk about Ronaldinho and everything but I didn't see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he changed the game, that is what killed the game - sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and [Samuel] Eto'o and people like that. You need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight.

I can't understand why [Paul] Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

In France, back in the days, when you walked to take a shower after the game, we couldn't see each other because of the smoke of the [cigarettes]. We're like... [mimics wafting smoke away and looking around]