Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.

Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

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

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.

The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

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