A football team represents a way of being, a culture.
It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.
Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.
In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.
I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.
Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.
What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?
I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
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.
Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.
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.
If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him
Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.
I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
For me, football is just a game, not a drama.
I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift
Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.
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.
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
