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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.

Zinedine Zidane

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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Beautiful Game Gift Player Talent
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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Father Hard Inspirational Myself Work Give Up
I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
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Myself Place Proud
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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Game Nature Ourselves Worth
My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
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Himself Myself Sports Tough
I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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Myself Opportunity Play
The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
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Country Father Fight Important
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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Boredom Feeling Need Success Win Yourself
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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Hard Hit Word
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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Important Myself Play Team Thinking
If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is.
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Anger Best Control Himself
Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
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Achievement Friendship Myself Play Sports
I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
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Fight Myself Need Play
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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Existence God Himself International Team
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.
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Believe Game Goodness Inspirational Motivational Ourselves People Success
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Important Myself Person Sports
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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Different Feeling Game Myself Place Willing
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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Best Growth Player Progress Recover Tournament
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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Children Myself Remember Strange Time
Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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Different Fashion Sports World
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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Dream Myself Player Team World
Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.
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Life Pay Price Regret
The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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End Fight Respect Team
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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Career Opportunity Play Present Regret Yourself
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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Children Different Difficult Family Life Myself Poor Race Teaching
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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Desire Explanation Fight Growth Hard Learning Play Stop
I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.
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Decision Myself

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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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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