Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.

I always knew I had to work hard.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

You are constantly battling against your own weaknesses to make a good performence.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.