I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEEverything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
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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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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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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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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
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Music was important. Football was the easy part.
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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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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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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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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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Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
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I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
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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.
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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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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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When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
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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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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
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Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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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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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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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.
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The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
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Messi is the Mozart of football.
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The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
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