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.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEI’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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Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He’s done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.
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Sometimes I don’t know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
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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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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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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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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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In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.
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Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years. France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.
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Music was important. Football was the easy part.
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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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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.
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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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