The street is the best way to become a good footballer.

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.

The flow of the anointing oil provokes intense worship

It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.

Nobody should want to wake up on November 9th and wonder whether there was more you could have done.

There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

Are you ready boots? Start Walking.....never look back. #‎ artforfreedom #‎ revolutionoflove

Does he have a nickname?' Diana went on remorselessly. 'I mean, 'gaiphage' is so long. Can we call him phage? Or maybe just 'G'?

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.