Michel Patini Quotes

I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.

What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.

Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

The street is the best way to become a good footballer.

Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.

I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.