I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
ZINEDINE ZIDANESometimes 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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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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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’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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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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Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
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My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
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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.
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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.
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