I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.
Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but both have a lot of humanity and a lot of humility. They always give you the energy... with Ferguson when we played a game it was like it was his first game - he's so passionate and gives you ambition every time. And Ken works the same way - they're very similar.
When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.
Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.
We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.
What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.
Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.
Every experience makes you a man.
I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.
Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.
After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.
You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.
When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
A good goal is one that is important and beautiful.
Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.
It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
Those who hate or disrespect Sir Alex Ferguson , its only because he snatched away their dreams of winning.
For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.
I didn't study; I live.
