Quotes from Dimitri Payet

I don't blame Le Havre. Back then, I wasn't an easy person to handle. I was always one of the first to mess around. So there were a lot of reasons why my adventure stopped at that point.

I try to put on a show while being effective because the spectators come to be entertained by beautiful play.

Many players in the French squad play in the Premier League or have played in the Premier League, so I knew about the level.

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

The number of French players Arsenal have brought through is very impressive, and many of the players who arrived, especially the young ones, were unknown when they arrived to the general public.

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

I had spent four years at Le Havre, and when they told me they weren't keeping me, because I wasn't good for the second division, that hit me hard.

My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.