I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.

Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.

Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.

YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.