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

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.

The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.

Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.

Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou.When had it all started, where will it end?We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different.Yet one.One and again.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

Strategy is a system of expedients.

People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.

It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.