You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.