“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.”

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.

My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class.

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.

Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is.

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.

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.

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

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.

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.

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.

Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don’t need a co-signer to chase them!

I always dream about winning the Ballon d’Or.

I didn’t really ever dream of going to the Olympics until after 2012.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

But hopes are just dreams and not all dreams come true. So I hope of you, knowing very well that you could never come true.