Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.

You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

I'm really going to miss me.

If you don't have your game-face on, you're going to go home either to a hospital or to a casket.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].

Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.