“Sometimes words are harder than blows.”

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.

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.

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.

I want people to look at my films and say ‘Wow, she’s a good actress’, and I know I’ll have to work hard for that.

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting – our shoulders square, our lipstick on – because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you’re doing

When you grind & work hard, you don’t ever have to tell anyone what you’re up to, the results will speak much louder than anything else.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

I really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn’t a romantic love, but there was something about him. It’s very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.