Frases de Zinedine Zidane

“En Francia era igual ganar que perder; casi daba lo mismo, nadie se hacía problemas.”

“Hay entrenadores que se creen más importantes que los jugadores. Cuando es así, es un problema.”

“Salí del retiro no solamente para ayudar a la calificación, pero también porque este equipo tiene los jugadores que pueden hacer algo.”

“Son poquitos los jugadores que tienen la suerte de hacer goles en la final de un Mundial; a mí me tocó.”

“Estoy satisfecho con mi actuación en el Mundial, pero me faltó algo hasta ahora y es marcar un gol. Espero hacerlo en la final contra Brasil.”

“No debemos dejarnos ir de curso, cueste lo que cueste debemos atenernos a nuestro juego natural.”

“Mis padres me educaron con cariño y protección Y eso que mi padre nunca me expresó su amor con palabras, nunca me dijo: Te quiero. yo sabía que me quería más que a nada.”

“Es que puedes tener todas las virtudes del mundo, pero si no tienes suerte ni gente en el camino que te ayude, no te sirve de nada.”

“He jugado en dos de los clubes más importantes del mundo. Hay otros, pero es difícil que igualen el palmarés de la 'Juve' o del Real Madrid.”

“Cuando eres de la Juve lo eres para siempre.”

“Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.”

“Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.”

“It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.”

“I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day. Music was important. Football was the easy part.”

“Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.”

“The greatest player of the past 20 years? It has to be Zidane. He had everything. You never needed to tell him anything as he did it all by himself and knew what was expected.”

“Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years … France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.”

“I really enjoy watching Zinedine Zidane. His elegance of movement on the pitch and his skills are uncanny. Apart from being an impressive player, he is also very humble and very likeable as a person. A great man.”

“He thinks in one second and does it the next. He is a special player, one who is original and exceptional. He creates space where there is none. Only the very best players can do that. No matter where he gets the ball or how it comes to him, Zidane can get out of trouble. His imagination and his technique are amazing.”

“In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.”

“What he could do with a football is a dream for most of us.”

“Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.”

“I would give up five players to have Zidane in my squad.”

“Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.”