Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.

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.

I think we would all agree that people should not be jailed for thoughts. But when, if ever, does a thought cross the line and become a crime?

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

Life gets more complicated and projects get more complicated after that.

If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.