Explore Quotes by Zinedine Zidane

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.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

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

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

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

Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He's magical.

The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

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.

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

I have always said the French team is the most important thing that has happened to me. I thought deeply about it and I want to play for France again.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.