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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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 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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At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
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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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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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I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
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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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You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
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The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
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Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.
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A football team represents a way of being, a culture.
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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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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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In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
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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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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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Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.
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I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift
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Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.
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I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.