130 Quotes by Zinedine Zidane

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

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

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

I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

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

The door can never be closed for good to any player.

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.

Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.