The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.

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?

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.

I'm making and marketing my films, by any means necessary, and enjoying life while I do so.

When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

I am the showstopper. The main event. The Icon that can still go.