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.

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.

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.

You can be beautiful, kind and, also, strong. Strength can be shown in very many ways besides a sword or bow.

Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

For, if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs needs spectacled snails, salivating on the Soma of youth.

Pregnancy is a very tough experience for a female, have no doubt. But, it's not a walk in the park for a man either. Understanding on both sides is key

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

I wanted a fake wedding in Jamaica.

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.