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

I'm going to Arsenal to play.

In football you have to take risks if you want to win.

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

Thanks to football my family are able to live well.

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

When you get to a club and things are not going well, it's not easy to live.

I have a lot of respect for Wenger. But a player needs playing time. And a coach has to put his faith in a player if he feels that he needs it.

As a child I dreamed of playing for Arsenal, because I loved them. Now I hate them for the way Wenger treated me.

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.

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.

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!'

In Ivory Coast it's very hard to have normal shoes, so just imagine football boots - they were considered a true luxury.

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

You must never forget where you came from.

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

The academy at Abidjan was my school of education. At 16, they sent me the boots and jersey with my name on the back. You can imagine how I felt: in the clouds.

Entertaining those who come to see me is my objective.

Arsenal have always been a dream of mine and I always thought one day I would go there.

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

Beveren helped me a lot to adjust to Europe.

Back in the days, being able to join the Jean-Marc Guillou academy was one of the best things that could happen to a youngster from Ivory Coast. There were thousands of kids who wanted to join that school so it was a great feeling for me.

I started playing at my local estate club. I used to wake up every morning to go to play in the club. I loved it so much, it brought a lot of wonderful things in my life.

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family would try to stop me playing football so that I went to school.