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I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.
It's normal to win the championship. It's Manchester United. We don't have the right to make mistakes.
I have a lot to thank Italy for. It's the country that opened the door to professional football for me.
Messi is unbelievable, but Ronaldo does it on his own. In Madrid, he has to score the goals and create them.
People can call me arrogant, but why should I lie? Of course I feel strong, and of course I am proud as well.
Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid, but to stay there is the hardest part.
Everyone thinks if they have a problem, the first thing they want to do is play football and enjoy themselves.
When you play for Manchester United, any year you don't win the title, you feel like you haven't done your job.
You can be the best left back in the world, but if you play badly in the final, people will say you're the worst.
I always say the Premier League is like two boxers fighting. The one who is least strong gets tired; he does down.
If it amuses you to hit people, you do boxing - you do taekwondo - whatever you want. But you don't play football.
The minute Juventus came calling, I knew it was the right choice for me. They have the same winning mentality as me.
I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.
In Europe, being fast, being strong, playing only with your quality, you are going to struggle against teams that prepare.
You bear the weight of the club's history on your shoulders, and you only become a true Red Devil once you understand this.
I am at the top of the pyramid, but I am not stupid, and I realise that one small step could see me fall down very quickly.
When you are young, you might be in the wrong position, but you know you are fast, and so you can compensate with your speed.
I've always believed that when you play for Juve, the goal at the start of the year is to win the title and a lot of trophies.
Players who play in the Premiership play everywhere - they are strong, quick, and have good technique. It is the best football.
I always say the biggest opponent for Manchester United is Manchester United. Every year I play for this club, I will say the same.
I think the French teams sometimes doubt themselves. They play some beautiful games but, when it comes down to it, do not go through.
A lot of people say I am not tall and I am small guy. But I jump very high. I surprise a lot of people when I go for the corner kicks.
It doesn't matter if you go somewhere and you're still winning - it's always the wrong decision to leave a club like Manchester United.
The only thing is against Messi you can stop him 10 times, but if he passes you once and scores, people say, 'Evra played a poor game.'
I remember, in my first interview after I arrived in Manchester, I said, 'I didn't come here to play in the Champions League - I have come to win it.'
Some might say friendlies are unimportant, but we always try to win because we then maintain that positive mentality when the real competitions start.
It doesn't matter who we play against, whether it is Barcelona or another big team: when you are Man United, you do not have an excuse. You have to win.
The Premier League title is very important, of course. I always say to play in the league and to win the title is very difficult. It makes you very proud.
I was only a 17-year-old lad when I played for Marsala, and while I didn't play much at Monza, that is where I met my agents, who are like brothers to me.
Wazza, when he plays behind the striker, he is very dangerous because he has more touches of the ball, and Wazza can create the goal as well and can score.
For me, Arsenal is a football training centre. You watch the match, you enjoy it, but are you going to win a title afterwards? That's what people remember.
I know the city and the club, and I can tell you that when you play for Manchester United at Old Trafford, you no longer need to see the sunshine every day.
It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.
There are some pundits with whom I will settle my differences... they want to sell a lie to the French people that Evra is disliked. But that is not the case at all.
Playing for Manchester United demands huge sacrifices. It is a club for workers, and we are there to slog our guts out. There is no bling and sequins about the place.
I came to Turin above all for my family, because at Manchester, they had inserted a clause in our agreement which changed the situation considerably. It really annoyed me.
I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.
You have to win the title with a strong team and a strong defence, but I don't only like to talk about the four defenders and the goalkeeper when you concede goals. It's about the team.
I don't have to prepare any differently because it's Messi, because every day in training I am up against people like Rooney, Berbatov, Ronaldo, and Tevez, so you know what to do against big players.
When you start to work out during your holidays, you know you've got the motivation. When I stop working hard during my holidays and getting excited before the beginning of the season, that's when I'll know it's time to call it quits.
I remember, in 2008, and we won the Champions League and the Premier League, and we were having our photos taken with the trophies, and someone said to me, 'Patrice, you don't look happy.' I said, 'It's because we are missing the FA Cup.'
When I hear people say Patrice never had someone to fight him for his place, I think they have bad memories. They forget very quickly how I got to become Manchester United's left-back. I fought with two great players in Gabriel Heinze and Mikael Silvestre.
This club is steeped in history and I feel privileged to have become a part of that ... An immense thank you to Sir Alex Ferguson for making it all possible, for giving me the privilege to be a captain, to be inspired by the legend of Manchester United and to understand that nobody is bigger than the club.
People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.
This is the United spirit: you can play everywhere. If you want to win, you have to accept it. You can see Antonio Valencia playing right-back as well. Only because United play like a team. The team is the star, not only one player, that’s why you can put me and Michael Carrick at centre-back; we’re going to win because it’s the team effort and team spirit. That’s why I’m confident. I’ve said that from the beginning – in six years playing here – the Man United spirit… no one team has got that spirit. This is United. This is why I’m so proud to play here.