I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

I have great memories.

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.

I apologize for nothing.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I don't care about the past.

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.

I live to feel myself in danger.

In England, your life is your life.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.

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.

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.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

I don't know where my medals are.

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.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

I always wanted to play against the best.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.

Football lost its excitement for me.

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

I think life is a big game we play.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.

I try to be honest.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

I don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

I want to look forward.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

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.

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.