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  • The more people that write me off, the stronger I get. That's my feeling.
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  • The main thing for me was that I wanted to be able to decide when my international career would end after 10 years myself.
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  • Arsenal has always been special for me.
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  • Football has taught me so much.
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  • That's why I kept going with my school - I wasn't talented. That's what's the difficulty - you want to define key talents when they are 12, 13 or 14? When I was that age I was nowhere near. People had given up on me.
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  • I want players to think: 'OK, this has happened now, what is next for me?' That's a very big target because what are academies about nowadays? Is it really just to find one or two players? But what happened to the others? I'm very, very interested in that.
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  • My home town called me a citizen of honour. So I'm a special citizen now.
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  • I've never had that dream in my head: 'I want to play Bundesliga or Premier League.' I was a fan, but it was never the dream that one day I was going to make it, because a lot of people had told me already that I wouldn't.
    - Per Mertesacker