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

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.

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.

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

I just want to hear something I haven't heard before

I manage to hide in my movies.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.