“It doesn’t matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.”
“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 won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.”
“Sometimes words are harder than blows.”
“Music was important. Football was the easy part.”
“I have no message.”
“My memories of events and games are fragmented.”
“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 was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.”
“It’s the first time it’s happened to me and maybe the last. It’s a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can’t remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.”
“Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.”
“I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.”
“I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.”
“A Mediterranean city is really my culture.”
“I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.”
“We’ll do it, we’ll do it.”
“Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.”
“I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.”
“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 have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.”
“I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.”
“The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.”
“The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.”
“To be recognised by a whole country is incredible.”
“We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.”
“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.”
“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 have decided to come back for Les Bleus.”
“It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.”
“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.”
“Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.”
“I love Madrid.”
“My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.”
“I am supposed to set an example to young players.”
“There are evil people, and I don’t even want to hear those guys speak.”
“When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.”
“The door can never be closed for good to any player.”
“I think Marseille is probably a place like Liverpool, very vibrant and very tough.”
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