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 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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.

The magic of love is that it becomes our memory which we never can forget.

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.