When I knew I had the chance to play for Liverpool I couldn't refuse it.

In your career, you can't always be at the top.

Sometimes things don't go exactly as you'd wish. You have to be mentally strong to overcome those moments.

All I've ever wanted is to improve myself and become the best, which is the reason I joined Real in the first place.

When the chance came to join a great club like Liverpool, I weighed up my options and it was obviously the best move for me.

I have always been proud and happy to wear France's colours. I have always been respectful of the team. But I need people to prove they really want me to play.

For me the French team belongs to the past.

No player can win matches on his own.

It is my job to score goals but that is only one part of the team.

The club must come first.

The jobs of manager and director of football are too big for one individual - this I realised very quickly.

I like to walk down the street in England and just be myself but I could never do that in Spain. In Manchester I can walk down Deansgate and not be troubled.

When you live in England you can lead a normal life.

Nowhere is the same as England and that's why so many players want to come over here. That is why I would like to finish my career over here.

When I left Arsenal, it was because I had done everything there and a big club like Real Madrid wanted me and even David Beckham couldn't turn them down.

When I started to play football as far I was concerned I just played football. I didn't want all the stuff around it, the press and that.

I left for Madrid at 20 years old and I didn't really know how it would go.

It's good to experience different things.

I know my game and I know my qualities.

I know that English football and the Premier League is the best.

If you ask all the players who have played with me, they will never say anything wrong about me.

When Real Madrid want you, it is difficult to say 'No' but, when I got there, I knew I could not stay longer.

I worked hard when I played for Manchester City, Bolton, even in Fenerbahce.

I've played as a striker all my life. To play on the right or the left is always difficult.

It's always good for a player to be on the pitch.

I went to Madrid to play football but I couldn't because I was never left in peace.

I have an affinity with Algeria, because I grew up with plenty of Algerian friends in the suburbs of Paris.

Football is open to anyone, especially somebody like me who grew up in the Paris suburbs.

I would be very happy if my career ended the way it started.

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

This is football, you always have to compete to be able to play. When you're at a big club, it's like that.

I do not need to show who I am to the people who do not know me.

I think Arsene Wenger was good for me.

When I was playing for Chelsea, it was always tough to beat Albion.

The Hawthorns has a good atmosphere, like many of the Premier League stadiums.

I smile when I want to smile. I don't want to be forced.

Bolton was a family club and I liked it.

A lot of youngsters want to be footballers and a lot dont make it. It is very difficult but if your education is good and you work hard and do everything the best way, then why not?

Football is my life and when I am happy on the pitch I am happy off the field as well.

With hindsight, if you want to play for Real Madrid, sacrifices need to be made but I was too young to understand. There are things I shouldn't have said or done. It was early in my career, maybe too early. I didn't know it was the only Champions League I'd win, for example.

Jurgen Klopp is a genius.

I don't miss playing for the national side, I am glad to be out of it.

I'm not going on the pitch just to score goals, I am going on there first to win and to play well and then, if I have the chance to score as well, that's even better.

For me the most important is on the pitch, I don't like too much speaking in the press. I will do the minimum. I will do it because I have to do it.

I know how to get the best out of the players.

I played and scored for all of the teams I played for except in Turin.

Being a coach is not the same as being a player.

I know the French mentality.

If one day I leave Shenhua, it will be the day I retire.

In football you need to be versatile sometimes, because the most important thing is to win games and enjoy your football.