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

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.

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?

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

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.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

I choose to love this time for oncewith all my intelligence-from "Splittings

Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.

When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.

Like a mountain that's growing.