A biography for Olivier Giroudhasn’t been written yet.
“Starting games with the French national team helped me bounce back when it was getting difficult with Arsenal.”
“You always have to work hard and keep the faith.”
“I have certain values. I know where I come from. I am a hard worker. I'm conscious of my luck.”
“When you are a striker, you need to give a lot of effort for the team, to keep the opponent under pressure, to press them, to win the ball fast - that's what I try to do to help the team. After that, I try to make some goals.”
“Arsenal is a great club - the facilities are wonderful - but I feel it is a club that takes big care before signing a player, notably considering human values.”
“Football, if I can say, is an everlasting new beginning. You always question yourself, but you have to be ready not just mentally but physically as well. You have to be fit and take care of your body.”
“When you are a striker like me, you always play for the teammates.”
“We don't have the money of the Manchester clubs or Chelsea. Arsenal builds its team through training, through recruiting players who can become something. Arsenal has less money than some other clubs, so we have to fight with other values.”
“That's why I love the Premier League - it's the best championship; it is very hard.”
“I don't have an inferiority complex.”
“It's important to keep improving.”
“When people are talking about a player to come and take your place, you take it personally because it's your position.”
“I am here to win trophies, you know, to help the team to reach our targets. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to bring my small thing to the big machine. You know, for Chelsea.”
“As a striker, what you got used to on a daily basis, it is to be applauded when you score goals. When the opposite happens, it's difficult.”
“The Champions League is massive for a football player. There is nothing above it when you're playing for a club.”
“Arsene Wenger gave me the possibility to bounce back.”
“My ambition is to win some trophies. That's why I am playing football.”
“All of my career, I have been - how can I say this? - I have been through certain difficulties, and I have always tried to make it motivation to get better and better.”
“I have never been in a cage fighting UFC. It would be nice to try.”
“The Premier League is my main target.”