“The door can never be closed for good to any player.”

My memories of events and games are fragmented.

I am supposed to set an example to young players.

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

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.

Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there’s been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.

If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.

Messi is the Mozart of football.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

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.

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

It’s the first time it’s happened to me and maybe the last. It’s a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can’t remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Don Siegel last advice to me was ‘Don’t short yourself.’ He said the tendency is when an actor’s directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you’re going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you’re satisfied with it.

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.