1. “The door can never be closed for good to any player.” – Zinedine Zidane
2. “Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.” – Zinedine Zidane
3. “My memories of events and games are fragmented.” – Zinedine Zidane
4. “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.” – Zinedine Zidane
5. “Music was important. Football was the easy part.” – Zinedine Zidane
6. “Sometimes words are harder than blows.” – Zinedine Zidane
7. “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.” – Zinedine Zidane
8. “I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.” – Zinedine Zidane
9. “There are evil people, and I don’t even want to hear those guys speak.” – Zinedine Zidane
10. “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.” – Zinedine Zidane
11. “I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.” – Zinedine Zidane
12. “A Mediterranean city is really my culture.” – Zinedine Zidane
13. “Sometimes I don’t know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.” – Zinedine Zidane
14. “I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.” – Zinedine Zidane
15. “It’s only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He’s almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.” – Zinedine Zidane
16. “It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.” – Zinedine Zidane
17. “Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.” – Zinedine Zidane
18. “My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.” – Zinedine Zidane
19. “When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.” – Zinedine Zidane
20. “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.” – Zinedine Zidane
21. “I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.” – Zinedine Zidane
22. “Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.” – Zinedine Zidane
23. “If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.” – Zinedine Zidane
24. “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.” – Zinedine Zidane
25. “Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He’s magical.” – Zinedine Zidane
26. “Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.” – Zinedine Zidane
27. “You don’t need a reason to help people.” – Zinedine Zidane
28. “I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.” – Zinedine Zidane
29. “We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.” – Zinedine Zidane
30. “It doesn’t matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.” – Zinedine Zidane
31. “Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.” – Zinedine Zidane
32. “Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.” – Zinedine Zidane
33. “The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.” – Zinedine Zidane
34. “I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.” – Zinedine Zidane
35. “My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself.” – Zinedine Zidane
36. “I am supposed to set an example to young players.” – Zinedine Zidane
37. “To be recognised by a whole country is incredible.” – Zinedine Zidane
38. “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.” – Zinedine Zidane
39. “It’s hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.” – Zinedine Zidane
40. “It’s true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves – the good and the bad.” – Zinedine Zidane
41. “Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends.” – Zinedine Zidane
42. “I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.” – Zinedine Zidane
43. “We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.” – Zinedine Zidane
44. “It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.” – Zinedine Zidane
45. “Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.” – Zinedine Zidane