Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Samir Nasri - Page 2

I needed a familiar club that would give me affection, and Sevilla can do that.

Marseille would be the only place that I'd like to play in France, but I think it's not realistic.

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want more and better for myself.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

I like Sevilla's attacking style. That is why I chose them.

All my career, I've played in great teams - Marseille was a great team, Arsenal was a great thing, but we never won a trophy. With Manchester City, first year, it happened, and it was just a big relief.

When I am on the pitch, I don't focus on the opposition fans. I am focused on doing my best for the team.

I love American culture.

I don't regret leaving Arsenal.

I was at Marseille and had four coaches in four seasons. Changing coaches is nothing new.

From the start, there was unanimity about my arrival at Manchester City. The coach, the executive director Garry Cook, and chairman Khaldoun al-Mubarak - I felt everyone wanted me.

It's so important to do well in the first game of a tournament because it can be key in the group. If you lose, you have so much pressure on the next two games.

Arsenal do not have money to spend, so they are gambling on young players. Arsenal are obliged to sell their best players and bet on youth - but what counts is having a team, great players, and a solid squad to win titles.

If I stay working with Pep Guardiola, if he wants me, he's just going to be a lucky man because I will be really hungry. I am the type of player for his philosophy and the way he likes his team.

When you win the league, it's different. Saying it is one thing, but when you win it, you know all your hard work for the season has just been rewarded.

I'm lucky to have a second chance. Not everyone in life has a second chance, and I do.

I do not have regrets, I do not regret joining Manchester City.

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

I made mistakes, I know, but I'm not the ugly duckling that some people seem to think.

When you compare Arsenal and City, it's not the same. With City, I'm playing in a better team.

Arsenal remains a big club, but the building of Emirates Stadium changed a lot of things.

I like offensive, technical, and quick football - exactly in the style of Arsenal.

My dream is to play in the MLS maybe, because I love the lifestyle in America. Doesn't matter - New York, L.A. - I want the big city.

If starting games in a club like Manchester City and winning two titles isn't enough, too bad. I won't regret anything.

I'm used to dealing with pressure.

I hope I will integrate myself quickly in this team and bring everything I can to Arsenal and the fans.

Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He's not a man of conflict.

Now I am finally a City player, and that's all I wanted since the start.

If you want to be a big player and play for a big club, you have to deal with the pressure.

The crowd at City are amazing, and that's what you want as a player - a good atmosphere.

My departure from Arsenal was purely for sporting reasons.

After 2012, I wanted to stop, but my father told me I had to play the World Cup. I tried to be good.

I'm really happy that West Ham and Manuel Pellegrini have given me a chance to be playing again.

I can play in the centre or on the wing, behind one or two strikers, on the left or the right.

A final is a final, a trophy is a trophy, a cup is a cup. Whatever cup you play, you want to win it, especially when you are a player.

I do not see myself returning to Ligue 1. I love the Premier League. I like my life in England.

I see myself going to play in the MLS, to discover something other than France.

You can ask any player: I never had any problem with any French team-mate.

I now hope the Arsenal fans can get on with their lives and forget me, they should celebrate their third-place achievement and I will focus on winning titles.

I'd prefer it if the coach said certain things to me face to face.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, great player, world class player, the English Zizou.

It is annoying. The work we do is not getting the credit it deserves because we are not winning silverware. It is unfair because I think we have more merit as a club than those who have built their teams with millions of pounds whereas Arsenal have brought in young footballers, who have come here to play a certain kind of football and who have developed.