Quotes by Didier Deschamps

My departure from Juve remains a regret, a mistake that taught me one thing - never make an immediate decision, at the end of the season, when everyone is 'boiling.' I have paid for such an experience.

You can't wake up one morning and say, 'Right, now I'm going to be a leader.' I think it is something that's in you, that you're born with, and which develops. Some people have that character, that personality and it comes naturally. You can't force it. It has to be authentic and natural. Innate.

When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.

Look, I was a water carrier, I don't reject my image. I didn't have the pretension to think that I could change a match by myself.

Competition is for everyone.

Brazil is the land of football. They have a lot of passion.

Sometimes it doesn't take much to slip back into bad habits.

You always learn, especially in failure.

That's what international football is all about - be able to bounce after a bad performance.

Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.