Top 227 Quotes & Sayings by Ivorian Authors - Page 2

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

I can confirm I feel more at home at Roma than elsewhere. I was adopted by the club, the staff and the fans. From the first day I sensed this great atmosphere.

When you want to win a competition you have to play all the best teams.

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

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

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.

I love the French league very much. The league allowed me to shoot to the European level.

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

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.

Football is great, isn't it?

I don't mind about my own stats, goals or assists.

I want to help the team to have a great season. I will give everything and never give up.

Any manager can go through a really difficult time.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

My frustration is I quit Arsenal too soon. I left a club I loved without really showing how good I was.

Jay Z, Thierry Henry, and President Obama are three people I really respect.

I really got a taste for winning titles at Lille.

I am passionate about the FA Cup.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.

I have always been the kind of player who tries to help those around me.

Critics and criticism are part of the game and I've not been affected by it.

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

When Arsene Wenger called me to tell me that he would like me to come to his club, I don't think you imagine the satisfaction I felt just after hanging up the phone.

The passion the British people have for football - they live for football.

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

Martin Keown was really competitive but Thierry Henry was similar, he wanted to win every game.

All the fans want to see good games.

I don't detest Arsenal because of the way Wenger treated me.

Didier Drogba has been an inspiration to all of us in the Ivory Coast national team. He is a great motivator for all of us - and some of the talks he gives are like a president trying to motivate his country. It is not just what he does on the field - but also all he does for all of our people off the field.

I love Arsenal, it's the club of my heart.

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

I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

I will keep playing for the national team until I feel I can't offer them anything.

To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

Our country craves for the trophy of the African Cup of Nations. I am craving for such a trophy in my career.

I need to work hard at training to become more clinical in front of goal.

Arsenal are the team that have left the biggest mark on me, without a doubt.

The best risk to take is to look to score goals and to play a lot.

When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

We all want to be champion.

I like to relax in the South of France. The weather is so good, the food is so good, and it is perfect because we can all speak French.

A season is like a marathon and there will be plenty of ups and downs.

Football can generate excitement and bring people together.

Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.

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

I love the FA Cup.

Dreaming costs nothing, no?

Managers come to clubs bringing players with them and they want to pick them at all costs - whether they are any good or not.

I will always be ready when the team needs me.

I lived a dream. Any kid who starts playing can't help but to dream to play at a club like Arsenal.

At the academy the coaches would show us Arsenal games on TV and my idol was Thierry Henry. He inspired me. That's why I became an Arsenal fan.

Wenger never had faith in me.

He had a sort of positive effect - you saw Salah and wanted to work harder. Talent and sacrifice.

My job is to try do the best for the team, like every other player.

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

Salah is a tough guy. Always calm and strong, with the mentality of a hard worker. I'll never forget his training sessions: very high rhythm, pushed like a madman, you watched him in amazement.

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

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.

Many young players tell you that they want to play for Manchester United or Arsenal. My dream was to play for Arsenal and I realised it. When I arrived, I thought: 'Wow, I'm here!'

The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.