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

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.

Now what state do you live in?''Denial.

Learning to think beyond a single dimension, look beyond the surface, love more than one color and enjoy the world of differences.

Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording artist.