Top 66 Samir Nasri Quotes

I’m used to playing in the Premier League now. I’m confident, and all my team-mates are confident with me.

I don’t make plans for my future. I have learned that you cannot predict what will happen.

I will only be 29 in 2016 for the European Championships, but the French national team doesn’t make me happy.

From the start, there was unanimity about my arrival at Manchester City. The coach, the executive director Garry Cook, and chairman Khaldoun al-Mubarak – I felt everyone wanted me.

I am a guy who likes a challenge. I don’t like to go somewhere where I am used to winning.

Of course, every game and opponent is different.

You can ask any player: I never had any problem with any French team-mate.

After 2012, I wanted to stop, but my father told me I had to play the World Cup. I tried to be good.

We get older, we get more mature and stronger mentally. You learn to deal with different situations.

I just look at what is best for me.

I’m lucky to have a second chance. Not everyone in life has a second chance, and I do.

I’ve learned a lot over the years, but I am an honest person, and when I’m not happy, I can’t fake a smile. If there is a problem, you will know straight away because you will see it on my face.

I never said Arsenal fans were not good. I just said I saw real passion when I signed here, and I said Arsenal was a little bit different. That is the only thing I said.

I think I have had my story with France. Unfortunately, it’s not the story I would have liked. I would have liked to have played a World Cup; I would have liked to have done a lot more for the French national team.

Wenger is the best coach I’ve worked with.

Pellegrini was the biggest factor for me to be joining West Ham.

I like offensive, technical, and quick football – exactly in the style of Arsenal.

Marseille would be the only place that I’d like to play in France, but I think it’s not realistic.

A final is a final, a trophy is a trophy, a cup is a cup. Whatever cup you play, you want to win it, especially when you are a player.

Tactically, I know how to play on one side even though I remain convinced that I can play better through the middle.

I don’t want to go back to the national team and play the hypocrite when some of them asked for me to be kicked out.

When you’re a player, you want the manager to know your quality and to want you.

If you win the Carling Cup, it can give you confidence, and sometimes, when you haven‘t won a trophy, you become scared of winning.

When I’m happy and smiling, I play my best.

I will not play for Tottenham.

I don’t regret leaving Arsenal.

When Manchester City came for me it was the best choice to come here.

Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He’s not a man of conflict.

I think more with my head – things are 90 per cent in your head, and everything else comes after that.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, they play on a different galaxy.

It’s not enough to be top in your league if you don’t do anything in the Champions League.

Defeat is forbidden.

Real Madrid, they are the best counter-attacking team in the world.

My dream is to play in the MLS maybe, because I love the lifestyle in America. Doesn’t matter – New York, L.A. – I want the big city.

I needed a familiar club that would give me affection, and Sevilla can do that.

The horizon is a little bit blocked with Didier Deschamps as manager. I respect his choices, but the French national team doesn’t make me happy any more.

I don’t pretend; I’m honest. Sometimes that causes a problem; I always say what I think.

If you look at Barcelona and the way they press high, or Bayern Munich, the way they press high… that’s what makes them the best teams, because when they lose the ball, in the first three seconds, that’s when they get the ball back, really, really high.

I’m used to dealing with pressure.

The crowd at City are amazing, and that’s what you want as a player – a good atmosphere.

A man is not scared of playing, of having any contact, and you won’t shut him down if you kick him – he will just ask for the ball all the time.

From time to time, I’m a jerk.

Now I am finally a City player, and that’s all I wanted since the start.

Remember that before joining Arsenal, I was at Marseille where it was easy for me because I was with my family; I was born there and had played for them since I was nine. I came here on my own, and you grow up more quickly that way. It made a difference, because now I have become a man.

Marseille has a big Muslim community. The good thing is it is a melting point: all nationalities in there. Everyone is fine with each other. It is really close to North Africa, to Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, so a lot of them come from there.

I like Sevilla’s attacking style. That is why I chose them.

Mentally, I’m really strong, but for maybe the first time in my life, I cried about my career because I thought it was over. When you’ve been out for a year, and you think it’s over, you think completely differently after that. I was just looking on TV, and I wasn’t able to train, and in the meantime, I had a son.

I’m not perfect.

I do not have regrets, I do not regret joining Manchester City.

In December, every league has a break, but in England, it is not like this.

Arsenal do not have money to spend, so they are gambling on young players. Arsenal are obliged to sell their best players and bet on youth – but what counts is having a team, great players, and a solid squad to win titles.

I love American culture.

It’s better not to talk but to act on the pitch.

It’s always good to score, and if we want to do something as a team, you need your important players to be at their best.

I made mistakes, I know, but I’m not the ugly duckling that some people seem to think.

I don’t know of one player who is happy on the bench, especially when you don’t understand the reason.

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

I’m really happy that West Ham and Manuel Pellegrini have given me a chance to be playing again.

I tried to do everything on the pitch to play at the World Cup. It wasn’t enough.

A lot of things have changed in my life and for the best. I’m really happy about it. I’m just blessed.

The World Cup is the World Cup, and I’m sad I won’t play in it; that’s my only regret. But to play a friendly with my national team, I did it many times, so it’s not something I’m missing.

Tactically, Italians are very strong. They are a lot into tactics: how to defend, when you lose the ball, where will you be?

My parents sacrificed everything for me. My father worked on a building site and as a driver – so many jobs. My mum was at home full-time to take care of me, my sister, and two brothers.

Sometimes it is a good thing to hear what kids have to tell you. Kids just tell the truth.

Cristiano Ronaldo is more of a professional, hard-working guy. Ronaldo is the example you follow.

When I say something, I don’t go back on it.