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

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.

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

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

War takes many things from people, but unfortunately, pain is not one of them.

You can't just say 'I love you,' you have to live 'I love you.'

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

We've got to have good schools in every zip code.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.