Kolo Toure Quotes

Kolo Toure

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 19, 1981

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.

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I had six years at Arsenal but the last two were very difficult.

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It can happen in football that you argue with somebody in training but when you are not even talking on the pitch something has to change.

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Nobody is perfect in life.

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If you're not perfect, don't expect the other guys to be perfect.

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Anything can happen in life. You take your car, you drive your car every day in the same road and one day you just have no concentration - accident. That's part of life. It can happen to anybody.

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We all make mistakes. But we learn from it.

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Strikers need to score goals and when they don't their confidence is affected.

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I know my qualities, I've got nothing to prove here in England, they know me here.

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We all struggle in life at a certain point.

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You have to build your squad every year to do better; to win the Champions League is very difficult as we have seen.

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

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When I went to Arsenal I was working really hard on the weights, as Arsene Wenger is very keen on that.

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I would never say a bad word about Mr Wenger, because he is somebody that makes players better players.

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The manager has to make rotations, otherwise the players will get tired.

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It's always a difficult situation to lose 1-0 away from home.

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You can't keep changing managers. Every time the players have to adapt to a new strategy and the thinking of the new manager, which is really difficult and takes time.

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I am passionate about the FA Cup.

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I love the FA Cup.

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