130 Quotes by Zinedine Zidane

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is.

I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.

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.

Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He’s done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.

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

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

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.

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.

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.