My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
ZINEDINE ZIDANELife is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.
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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.
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If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is.
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I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
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Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I’m very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I have always said the French team is the most important thing that has happened to me. I thought deeply about it and I want to play for France again.
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When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
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Messi is the Mozart of football.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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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.
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Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
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A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
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We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
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There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.
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Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
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The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in soccer, and I want to profit from it to the maximum.
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The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
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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.
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The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
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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.
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I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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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.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.
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