Quotes from Zinedine Zidane

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

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.

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

If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

I am supposed to set an example to young players.

My memories of events and games are fragmented.

I have no message.

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.

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

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

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.

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

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

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.

I think Marseille is probably a place like Liverpool, very vibrant and very tough.

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.

There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.

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

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

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.