A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.

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

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.