Zinedine Zidane Quotes (48 Quotes)

My family are very proud of me, but I am very proud of them and where they come from. I am proud that they come from Kabylie. It is a special place.

After the World Cup, I will stop playing football.

I know it's strange and some will ask 'Why did he leave'. At that time I was sure I would not come back. Just as I'm sure today that the time is right to return.

We had a long discussion. 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.

I think we have the team to go very far at the European championships. Now we just have to be ready on time.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

I would not have come back otherwise. I did not only do it so we would qualify but because this team has the players who are capable of achieving something.

I want to give something to the children that soccer has given to me.

We'll have to be tough in Dublin. We'll need to have a strong physical presence because the Irish are going to come at us hard. But we're more than capable.

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

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

I'm disappointed and happy at the same time that he's not here,

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

If we are at 150 percent on D-Day, I don't see which country could trouble us apart from Brazil, obviously, because they are the only fearsome team as they have always been.

think -- and I stress my words -- about the consequences of voting for a party that does not at all correspond to the values of France.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

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.

We'll do it, we'll do it.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

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.

I have no doubt our players play for some of the best clubs in Europe. I am convinced that our players are only just a little short of what is needed to carry us a long way. We have to do everything we can to achieve that because it will be the last chan

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.

Before it was hard to talk about certain things, especially if, like me, you came from a difficult area or an immigrant background.

It went well for Real tonight and we can be happy with how we've done in the tournament until now. We played our game and I think our victory was deserved.

That's not the case, but over here these type of little things are normal to fill the pages of newspapers. You shouldn't attach too much importance to it. I let others talk and concentrate on what I have to do.

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

It was an exceptional game, like we had in 2000 with Portugal and Italy, ... In these two matches we managed to reverse the trend, and we did it again.

The sooner we find the net the better. We know that we must slot a fair number of goals to compensate for a possible away victory by the Swiss.

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.

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

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.

It's promising for the future. The important matches are coming.

I want to finish my season and have a good World Cup and then we'll see. I had a groin problem that lasted a long time and also an ankle problem, but now I'm a lot better physically.

I have no message.

It's in my head. It's not certain that I will carry on until 2007. I have another six months with Madrid, a World Cup and afterwards we will see.

I've got a year and three months left on my contract. We'll get through these three months, get ready for a nice World Cup and then we'll see.

I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.

I have six months or one year left, that's true. I am closer to the end than the start. I want to make the most of my last moments as a football player and experience them at 100. I know that otherwise after I retire I will regret all those times.

To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.

My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.

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.

I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

We have two matches ahead of us. You have to be honest, if you can't beat the Faeroe Islands then there is a problem.

It's in my head. I'm not sure if I will keep going until 2007. I have six more months with Real Madrid, the World Cup and then we will see.

Yes, I will play the World Cup (if we qualify).

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.