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.

You need to be honest, even if you hurt people.

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.

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.

It's not easy when you have to make a lot of changes.

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.

We are professional players and when we go out we want to play well and win.

Any team can fall down but it's about how they react to defeat that matters.

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.

I remember the best defenders were Baresi and Cannavaro - you don't have to be really tall.

I want to talk to players, that is the way I am. That is what I bring. I will keep doing that, it doesn't matter what happens, anywhere I go.

For me the most important is the club, the team.

You know I've been at Arsenal which is a top club and every week you have to fight for your place.

Every season when I win a trophy I'm just so happy.

When you play for big clubs you have more chance to win trophies.

Always, always, for a team like City, it's difficult to go for a season without winning one trophy.

Wenger is a top manager, he has shown that unbelievably. The thing I like is this manager can make an average player one of the best players in the world.

We all want to be champion.

When you don't play, you need to support the team and your team-mates need to feel that you are behind them fully.

You can't ever give up. When you refuse to lose games, you often find yourself winning them.

You know that in a lot of games it is only decided towards the end. Players get tired and when you have that push from your fans you can feel the difference.

Everybody wants to play for Pep.

Ask anybody - every day at training I give everything.

I need to work hard and that is alright by me.

It is very difficult to leave your team for a month to play in the African Nations. But you are playing for your country, for your father, for your family, for your pride.

I think it's very important to have a good defensive team.

I think you say that strikers win you games, but defenders win titles and I think that's really important.

I think it's amazing how Ramadan can make you really strong.

For me, Ramadan is not an easy time because it's a time when I need to work much harder, because I need to help my teammates. That's the way I see things.

Ramadan is an important part of Islam, and when you are observing it, God is happy with you and you have to have a big celebration.

Any manager can go through a really difficult time.

I have experienced a lot in football and if the young players need advice, they know they can ask me.

I will always be ready when the team needs me.

When you're at a big team like Liverpool, you can't expect to start every game.

Sometimes when you come every day to training you can't realise how big it is to be a footballer.

When you play against a team such as Arsenal, Manchester United or Chelsea, you never know what will happen. But the key to the season is to win the games that you expect to win.

I don't like to make mistakes.

I have been working really hard to make a career in football since I was 14 years old.

I've always been someone who has wanted to fight and to scrap for every penny I could.

I give everything for my team to win but the most important thing is to enjoy every second of every minute.

Football is great, isn't it?

When you win, it is fun. When you lose, it is OK. This is life.

When you play with somebody and you don't even talk to each other on the pitch it's really difficult.

As a player, I had great respect for Gallas because he was older than me and in Africa when someone is older you have respect for them, but I think sometimes he took advantage of that in some ways.

I had six years at Arsenal but the last two were very difficult.

Nobody is perfect in life.

If you're not perfect, don't expect the other guys to be perfect.

We all make mistakes. But we learn from it.

Strikers need to score goals and when they don't their confidence is affected.

I know my qualities, I've got nothing to prove here in England, they know me here.