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.

We all struggle in life at a certain point.

You have to build your squad every year to do better; to win the Champions League is very difficult as we have seen.

To win the World Cup is not about one player, it is about a squad.

When I went to Arsenal I was working really hard on the weights, as Arsene Wenger is very keen on that.

I would never say a bad word about Mr Wenger, because he is somebody that makes players better players.

The manager has to make rotations, otherwise the players will get tired.

It's always a difficult situation to lose 1-0 away from home.

I'd love to rent a private villa in a resort complex with a kids' club.

At eight or nine I passed the exam for Notting Hill and Ealing High, a private school. I had an assisted place; I was always the one who, for financial reasons, didn't go on the skiing trip or whatever.

I wear mascara, eyeliner, a bit of foundation and blusher. I always think lip gloss makes you appear properly made-up. Slap it on and suddenly you look glamorous.

I like to wear things that don't need ironing. It seems a fundamental design flaw when clothing needs ironing. There are loads of fabrics these days that don't need ironing, so I stick to those.

My parents grew up in a village where they didn't even have running water. They are first generation immigrants who are proof that arranged marriages can work, although I wouldn't want one.

The thing about local government is they want to hear what local people think, but for the most part, their systems are so long, dull and bureaucratic that people only get involved when there's an issue they really care about.

West Wittering in Chichester is perfect for a short break and if I've got longer, Devon and Cornwall are my favourites places in Britain.

We need to take back control of our political process. We know so much more about what Brexit will mean, and the health implications, especially for those who are already in a disadvantaged position.

Imagine owning a one million pound coin. Where would you put it? The pressure. I never even take my wedding rings off after the time I lost one for days, only to find it in a random trouser pocket.

Most people don't go around talking about their miscarriages. It's not really something you shout about. What's more, people often feel embarrassed or even guilty about them.

I was mindful that clothes, objects and items had all been designed and manufactured. Thought had gone into those processes, so to mindlessly treat everything without care or as disposable was disrespectful. Things should be valued.

Mental health really is a search to be happy, I think that's what people want in life - and if you're happy you're winning.

Let's have a People's Vote to safeguard gender equality and continue the drive towards a fairer world for us all.

I don't really buy a weekly magazine but do flick through them if they're in front of me. A bit of style and a dose of gossip is just what you need sometimes.

Back in humanity's hunter-gatherer days, you only ate meat if you'd recently made a kill, which required a huge amount of effort, and was therefore relatively rare. There's a reason humans only have one set of incisors to rip our meat apart: we're not supposed to eat the stuff at every meal.

Growing up in a Muslim family, I didn't eat pork and was tactically vegetarian at school in a bid to avoid accidentally dining on swine, a galling prospect.

It was daunting, giving up a regular job for a freelance world, where every day off is a day of unemployment and you are conscious you are not earning. But it was time to take a gamble and see what's on the other side.

If you're broke and you're living on the street and you're happy, you're still winning compared to someone who is rich and depressed, because your mental wellbeing is still there.