For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.

What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

You ought to thirst for the living water.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation.

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline.

Repetition is a form of change

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all.