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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.
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Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
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It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
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I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.
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I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.
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I always wanted to play against the best.
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Every experience makes you a man.
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On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
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I apologize for nothing.
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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
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Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.
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When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'
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I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
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We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
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I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
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My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.