In life, you should be allowed to express yourself. People are happier like this.

As a professional athlete you have to be technical with what you eat. You have to make sure your intakes are on point every day.

I started as a winger and played there for about six years but when I came to Arsenal they told me 'now you have to play me at the back' and everything just changed.

I've always had little problems in my ankles when I played very hard games, they'd get very inflamed and stiff.

If someone from 'Arsenal Fan TV' says this guy needs to do this or that I'm not going to listen to him. They're entitled to their opinion and the way they want to do it. If people find it funny, then go watch it.

If a coach comes to me and says you've done something bad I'm going to take that advice.

Obviously, I grew up in Barcelona, and when I watch them play I want them to win. The team are always going to be in my heart.

As a team, if you don't have the best season, it doesn't help.

It's true, when I was at Barcelona I played as a winger.

In the beginning, learning a new position is not easy.

Mesut is someone who gets a lot of criticism, but the players who are around him are very happy to have him and play with him. He makes things very easy for us.

I am very happy in London.

It's definitely been a hard journey, one with lots of ups and downs.

Arsenal is a club that likes to bring through young players, that's something that always gets the fans excited, to see someone from home come and play for the first-team. I think that's something that every team should do. The fact that Arsenal does it a lot and that I'm one of them, I'm really proud.

It doesn't matter about the other team, when we have the ball and push hard, we can score goals. It is up to us to start the games with that desire, that motivation, and then we can get good results.

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.

At the beginning of the first season, you don't have that pressure to perform at 100 per cent, because it's always hard when you first start. But now, in the second season, people are expecting big things from you, so you can't really disappoint them.

When you are asked to play for Arsenal, and for the first-team at that, it is very hard to say no.

Some people are born fast.

I've always been pretty quick for my whole career.

Everything you do off the pitch always shows so you have to work on yourself physically as well, it's not just working on your touch.

Representing Spain is very important.

My job is to focus on the pitch, what happens off it is something for my agent.

I say every year that England is my home now.

My dream when I was at Barca was to play at Camp Nou and I did - just not wearing the shirt I'd expected when I was little.

For me, Barca was where I grew up since I was tiny, from eight years old.

You make mistakes in a game, but if you come away with a win, that's all gone.

Football is a game of speed and drama.

VAR can remove injustices, but decisions need to be taken faster.

When you win you're going to get fans chanting your name and when you don't do great they're going to give you stick.

When you're angry you can say something you don't mean.

Everyone's got their opinion and sometimes it's going to hurt.

Mesut is a player that always keeps giving his best and is always surprising everyone and he's a player that we're very grateful and very lucky to have.

Mesut is a player that has been through a lot in his career through loads of ups and downs, but most of all he's a born champion and he's a player who has so many records in the world of football, so he's a player that is an example for everyone.

It's nice there are a lot of big clubs that are interested in me, but if one of those is Barcelona, that's special.

Sometimes taking it slowly, taking a player through the paces is the best way to keep him wanting more.

It's not about age. If Marcus Rashford is ready for England then he should play.

If you want to be in the first team you have to show how much you're worth at U21 level.

I realised as I was getting older, I was eating healthier and healthier, and I realised I didn't really need to eat meat.

The important thing is to build a good team, a good block and get results from there.

Each club has its own resources and its way of working.

What matters is that on the pitch we give the maximum to prove that money is not everything.

When I first came to Arsenal, I didn't know how to defend.

As footballers we have a massive platform that we should be using way more than we actually are.

I know it's very comfortable to sit at home and stay with your family, kids and friends and not worry about anything. But with the platform we have we should be the people that scream at the social issues and put them out there so as a society we can move forward.

It feels that while the young people are trying to fight for a world where there's equality, everyone's the same, everyone's helping each other, we want to take care of the planet... it seems like the people that are ruling and are being presidents right now want to do it the other way round.

I don't get that much time to play, so when I'm with my mates, I usually only play 'CoD.'

A lot of people think I dress to make people talk and it's not like that. I just dress how I like.

My dad was a Real Betis fan.

When I used to go to school, the teachers used to say to my mum, 'Hector looks like he's going to a restaurant.' I was just that kid, I wanted to look good.