Quotes from Kolo Toure

Kieran Tierney's work rate is just amazing. He gives 100 percent in every game, he makes lots of runs and makes lots of assists too. He defends, he goes forward, he is every inch the modern left back.

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

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

As a player, I had great respect for Gallas because he was older than me and in Africa when someone is older you have respect for them, but I think sometimes he took advantage of that in some ways.

For me, life is about being happy. Life is about enjoying and that's it.

Martin Keown was really competitive but Thierry Henry was similar, he wanted to win every game.

It is all about working hard, focusing and doing our job.

To win the World Cup is not about one player, it is about a squad.

My dream is to win the World Cup with an African team, for my continent.

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

You need to be honest, even if you hurt people.

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

I was better than certain players at Manchester City but I was left on the bench. Before I left the club, I told the people in charge that they would regret letting me go.

I'm a professional footballer and, to me, playing regularly is the most important thing; money is secondary.

My wish was to finish my career at Arsenal, but there are always banana skins.

There is great respect for Liverpool in the Ivory Coast.

I have experienced a lot in football and if the young players need advice, they know they can ask me.

I have always been the kind of player who tries to help those around me.

When you play for big clubs you have more chance to win trophies.

Every season when I win a trophy I'm just so happy.

Always, always, for a team like City, it's difficult to go for a season without winning one trophy.

When I was a young boy I sold newspapers by the side of the road. I cleaned the shoes of people for less than a pound a time. I was 12 years old but I had to do it to eat because my family was so poor.

Wenger is a top manager, he has shown that unbelievably. The thing I like is this manager can make an average player one of the best players in the world.

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