Michel Platini Quotes
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What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.
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For me, football is just a game, not a drama.
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If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.
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I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.
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A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.
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The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
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Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.
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A football team represents a way of being, a culture.
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The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him
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You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
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Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.
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At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
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At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.
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Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
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It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
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I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
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The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.
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We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
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The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.
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In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
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The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
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Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.
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I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
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I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift