Zinedine Zidane Quotes
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.
Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.
Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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.
Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.
Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He's magical.
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.
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.
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.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
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.
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.
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.
My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
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.
