“When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.” — Marcus du Sautoy Quote

“When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.”

“If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.”

“The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.”

“I had problems with certain players at Arsenal, especially one, whose name I will not say because I don't want to feed the controversy.”

“In 2000 I was really close to sign for Real Madrid. I was in Belgium, playing the European Championship. I even took a picture with the Real Madrid shirt because all the parties thought that it was a done deal. But Wenger called me several times and convinced me to sign for Arsenal instead.”

“I was very young in the past at Arsenal, at Real Madrid as well.”