If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored
You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.
I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.
I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
Messi is the Mozart of football.
Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.
It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.
Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.
You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.
I am supposed to set an example to young players.
Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.
We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
