Top 227 Quotes & Sayings by Ivorian Authors - Page 3

Replacing someone who has scored more than 30 goals in the previous season is not easy.

I have good memories of my visit to China. It was a beautiful experience for me. I learned a lot of things. I hope Chinese football is still evolving, that they have the chance to sign other players to develop the league. We did our part of the job by bringing what we had to bring to Chinese football.

I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.

I honestly did not learn much from Arsenal.

I've been observing Ramadan during all the years I've been in football. It's very important that you eat well. It's important that you eat the right food because you can gain weight or you can have less food in your body.

On any given day a team can have a bad result.

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

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

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

I'm very lucky being able to be next to the likes of Thierry Henry or Didier Drogba.

There are many players with talent, but it is important to find a coach who knows how to make the most of that.

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.

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

When you are young, you always want to improve, to work with great managers - and Arsene Wenger is one of the best in the world.

I was not getting much time on the pitch and was in need of this time to improve and play my best football. Wenger was not prepared to give it to me. Also my position on the wing was not what I was expecting and I wasn't happy with it.

The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'

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

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

I haven't had many problems adapting to the Premier League.

For me, I'm a fighter and I like to play for big clubs because that's where you improve yourself. Every day at training you have to give a hundred per cent to be picked by your manager.

It is all about working hard, focusing and doing our job.

You must never forget where you came from.

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

Zahoui is a guy who's in quest of results, however it comes.

When I was a young boy I sold newspapers by the side of the road. I cleaned the shoes of people for less than a pound a time. I was 12 years old but I had to do it to eat because my family was so poor.

Every game is challenging and sometimes things don't go well for you but you need to be able to come back and carry on fighting.

Thanks to football my family are able to live well.

In the middle, it gives you lots of options. You can make a run on the right, on the left, deep in the center. It's a big advantage.

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

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

I started playing football in Abidjan, my African town, without even having shoes on my feet.

I'm going to Arsenal to play.

People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.

I've learnt to adapt on the pitch and, when I think back, also in front of goal.

The Premier League is a notch above. It's maybe the best league in the world.

When the league starts you know that anything can happen.

I have got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I have got to keep up my standards.

I do not know what the future holds for me.

Eden has learnt a lot at Lille, and I believe he could succeed abroad.

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

Wenger built this club and it is hard to imagine Arsenal without him.

There is no small team or easy match in football.

When I arrived at Le Mans nobody knew me, I had to work hard to get into the first-team.

Ask anybody - every day at training I give everything.

You can't keep changing managers. Every time the players have to adapt to a new strategy and the thinking of the new manager, which is really difficult and takes time.

I don't like to make mistakes.

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

It is always difficult to leave your mates and your club in the middle of the season for another competition.

I left England because I was not playing.

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.

A group of artists in Ivory Coast recorded a song about me.

We all struggle in life at a certain point.

Every game is tough for me because the level of competition is so high in the Premier League, and every time you have to be at your best.

The most important thing for me is to continue to learn, step by step, regardless of club or country.

I want to use my time here at Arsenal to develop my strengths.

If you want to be successful, you need to work as a team.

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.

Kieran Tierney is a lot like Ashley Cole in the way that he bombs up and down the flanks and that he is also so physically strong. He plays every game as well. He is not the tallest but he is a fighter and he is strong. He crosses, gets back and defends. He is a very good player.

Stephen Keshi is a good coach and he has changed Nigeria into a respectable team.