I have said in the past that I dream of playing in Spain, but Dortmund has become my second home. I love this club, its fans, and this city.

I started playing with my dad, and football was my dream forever. Step by step, I learnt a lot. I worked really hard, and finally when I was eighteen, I signed my first professional contract.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football...

I have been compared with Antonio Conte and it is an honour to be compared with him. I would love to enjoy the same success he has had as a coach.

How can you go from a free-flowing football game for 90 minutes to stopping for one or two minutes for a decision?

I've achieved big things that would not be possible had I not been at such a big club as Liverpool.

I spent nine years at Arsenal, which makes the club really special for me.

In modern football, you need to make decisions quickly and play fast.

Bolton was another important stage for me. I learned a lot, even if I didn't fight for any titles. We were not too close, only one semi-final of the FA Cup and then I went to Sunderland for only four...

Premier League is one thing. World Cup is totally different.

People must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. I would find it healthy that it remain so.

Ha Ha Clinton-Dix has been one of the better safeties in the NFL.

I have played in La Liga and I can say the Premier League is really tough.

If you are on the front foot playing attacking football and you want to score goals, that is what people want to pay money to watch.

It was always my dream to come to the Premier League because I love this league, and I love this country. It's an amazing place.

I never expected to adapt so quickly, but if you are a foreigner it's up to you to adapt to English football because you can't change it. I think I've achieved something in the way I adapted.

It was very special to score goals for Real Madrid, especially in front of the home crowd at the Bernabeu.

Of course the Champions League is a real goal.

I'm a very active person. I'm a big tomboy, throwing around a football, hiking... all that stuff I love.

I remember my last game for Newcastle in the pre-season, when their fans were singing that they wanted me to stay, but when the opportunity came to play for a great club like Liverpool with such a...

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other...

I have always said there are just two people who could make me change my decision to stay at Barcelona. One of those two people is my wife.

I dream of playing in the English league.

I idolized IM Vijayan and Krisanu Dey when I started watching football. After that, it was Bhaichung Bhutia in India and Brazilian Ronaldo abroad.

In my country, they used to call players who play in my position a defensive midfielder, but it is not defensive.

Aqib Talib has never seen a pass he didn't think he could take to the house.

In knockout football, it's one bad game and you're out.

When I was a boy, I was really thin, small, long-haired. I always looked young. People thought, 'He can't play football.' I used that to my advantage.

It's pretty hard to predict anything when talking about the Premier League because of the liabilities the teams and the players have when playing in the Champions League and the other cups, too.

I've said in the past that I'd like to play in Spain one day, because it is a league that is good technically and where you get a lot of touches on the ball, which is my style.