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.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEMy memories of events and games are fragmented.
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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.
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Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He’s magical.
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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.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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It’s only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He’s almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.
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My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
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Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
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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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We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
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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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The door can never be closed for good to any player.
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My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
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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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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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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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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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When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
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Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
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If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.
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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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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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Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal. So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.
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