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Baresi was not tall but he was a great player, while Cannavaro was the best defender in the world - hopefully I will be the same.
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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.
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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.
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You cannot have a place in the team - even if you are an international - if you don't show what you can do in training.
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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.
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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.
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Every game is challenging and sometimes things don't go well for you but you need to be able to come back and carry on fighting.
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When I played football I wanted to make people happy. This is the way I am. I can't be someone else.
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Kieran Tierney is a lot like Ashley Cole in the way that he bombs up and down the flanks and that he is also so physically strong. He plays every game as well. He is not the tallest but he is a fighter and he is strong. He crosses, gets back and defends. He is a very good player.
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In official competitions there are mistakes you don't make or you pay for it dearly.
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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.
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I won the title with Arsenal in 2004 and it is harder to defend it the following season.
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I'm a professional footballer and, to me, playing regularly is the most important thing; money is secondary.
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When you do a good tackle, or block, the Kop they really appreciate that and they let you know it.
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For me, I'm a fighter and I like to play for big clubs because that's where you improve yourself. Every day at training you have to give a hundred per cent to be picked by your manager.
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Martin Keown was really competitive but Thierry Henry was similar, he wanted to win every game.
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Managers come to clubs bringing players with them and they want to pick them at all costs - whether they are any good or not.
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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.
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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.
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I love Africa. I am very grateful for everything I have in Europe but everything I'm learning I want to help my continent to get better - in football as well.
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Stephen Keshi is a good coach and he has changed Nigeria into a respectable team.
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You can't keep changing managers. Every time the players have to adapt to a new strategy and the thinking of the new manager, which is really difficult and takes time.
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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.
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I will keep playing for the national team until I feel I can't offer them anything.
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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.
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Whether I start or not, I will do whatever I can in whatever way to play my part.
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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.
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I had problems with certain players at Arsenal, especially one, whose name I will not say because I don't want to feed the controversy.
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