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I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.
I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
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.
I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.
For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.
What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
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.
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.
You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
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.
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.
Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.