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 was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

The street is the best way to become a good footballer.

A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.