Music was important. Football was the easy part.

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.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

Sun and snow is an Angel’s glow, but storm and rain? That’s a Demon’s bane.

Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Winter is where hope lies happy.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Fame gets you in the door but it doesn't keep you in the room.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.