"I've been treated unfairly by Feyenoord, but now I'm happier than ever at Arsenal."

"You can't break me."

"When I get past this, I know I can become a great player."

"She kept a blind faith in me."

"Living in England is like a breath of fresh air."

"This season shall be my big break."

"I hold his right leg still and dangle a toy right above his left leg. Then he has to kick against it. He will become a lefty in no time if I keep up with this.” (Robin about his little son Shaqueel)"

"I was young and impulsive. I don’t believe that Van Marwijk is a bad trainer. It was difficult for him as well, because it was his first big club. Before Feyenoord, he only worked a few years for Fortuna (a small club in the first division). It was for both of us a new experience. I think that if we meet each other later, our relationship would be different."

"I discovered that it was nice that I didn’t feel stress in my body."

"We laughed so much with Ruud van Nistelrooij during the World Cup. One time, Ruud came to us and said: Fawaka? (That means how are you? It’s a word from the Sranan language, people in Surinam speaks that language. Surinam is a former colony of Holland in Latin America. People like Babel, Jaliens and de Jong have Surinam roots.)"

"My bad habit is picking at my nails."

"Sex before the match? That’s impossible. We can’t leave the hotel and there’s a guard on every floor. You can’t do it, even if you want it very gladly."

"I want to play for him, I want to decide the match for him."(Robin about Van Basten)

"I’m afraid to die because I don’t want to die yet"

"And then when you're really having a hard time, if it really hurts, You have to think about the happy times and use those memories as an inspiration to get out of the difficult situation you're in."

"Bouchra is everything to me. I see her not only as my wife, but also as my best friend."

"The English people on holiday were not very good at table tennis. You could hear them going: tok…tok…tok. If you hear us playing, it’s like: toktoktoktoktok!”

"If I had to choose between not scoring that goal and not that injury and this, I would choose for my goal.” (Robin on his long during injury on his fifth metatarsal)

"After the training, I always do some extra skill practice with Flamini. We play the ball to each other with a lot of pace in one straight line and then we control the ball with our feet. I think that’s so sexy.”

"If you love football, if you develop yourself with pure love, everything comes together at the right time and place.”

Others on Robin:

"Van Persie is Cruijff's succesor." (Johan Derksen)

"Having said that, I'm convinced that he's an amazing player." (Arsené Wenger)

"Van Persie has gunpowder in both his head and feet." (BN de Stem)

"He defines himself with football. He’s literal a born football player."(Henk Spaan)