Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.

The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in soccer, and I want to profit from it to the maximum.

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.