Kolo Toure

“Sometimes when you come every day to training you can't realise how big it is to be a footballer.”

“When you do a good tackle, or block, the Kop they really appreciate that and they let you know it.”

“When the league starts you know that anything can happen.”

“Anything can happen in life. You take your car, you drive your car every day in the same road and one day you just have no concentration - accident. That's part of life. It can happen to anybody.”

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

“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.”

“Whether I start or not, I will do whatever I can in whatever way to play my part.”

“Any manager can go through a really difficult time.”

“When you don't play, you need to support the team and your team-mates need to feel that you are behind them fully.”

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

“With team spirit, you can win anything.”

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

“Any team can fall down but it's about how they react to defeat that matters.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“If you're not perfect, don't expect the other guys to be perfect.”

“As players, we have the best job in the world and if the manager said, 'You haven't worked hard enough, you will only get half your wages this week,' it would make the players fight harder.”

“I give everything for my team to win but the most important thing is to enjoy every second of every minute.”