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.

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.

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

My mama told me If you're the smartest person in the room then you're in the wrong room.

Think positive, Butch.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them.

Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist president.

Probably the biggest compliment someone can give you is, "Gosh, you look great. You don't look tired."

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.