Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that.

A 3-0 win in the World Cup, it's never easy.

All the great teams need a real top striker in order to win in Europe.

History is in the past and tomorrow we will try and write a new page.

To be in the France team means they have a number of duties and responsibilities.

Scoring eight goals is never easy.

For me, I always considered that a group is above everything else.

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

I always ask myself if a decision is in the team's best interest.

Nothing is impossible. Lassana Diarra did not play for France for five years and then returned.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

Either a player accepts competition or they say they absolutely need to play. For a player to have an open door, I have to have, at the same position, an element that is just as good or even better.

Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.

In tough times, that's when you see true colours and personality.

Creativity is making a good pass at the right time... but it can also come from deeper, there should always be a balance.

What interests me principally are points.

To score three goals and not concede any is always interesting for a coach.

There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo.

There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.

When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don't take the 23 best players, that is for sure.

We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the only truth is on the pitch. The dangers are there.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

People always want the same thing: to carry on winning.

I don't think you just become a leader.

When you go to a club abroad and play against one from your own country, you are part of the enemy.

My players need to have the feeling that they've pushed themselves to their limits.

I've always hated to lose and I continue to hate it. But I've been obliged to accept it because I also have had some crushing defeats.

Players like me, we did something of a thankless job. You don't show a hard tackle or stripping someone of possession in slow motion on the big screen. But if you add it all up, I was always the one that the coaches wrote down automatically on the lineup card.

When there are hard times, the trend is to question yourself and to dig deep but when things go well you shouldn't relax and think things come easy or you need to put in less effort.

Football is my passion.

You can't win anything more special than a World Cup.

My past as a player is strongly linked to the red, white and blue France shirt.

There are a lot of things you can practise to unsettle teams that defend deep.

I am not a very good dancer.

All are welcome in sport.

We can always play better.

You have to live in your times.

That's what international football is all about - be able to bounce after a bad performance.

We want to be the best we can.

Those friendly games are not pointless. They enable us to go forward.

Each member of the team must feel important - everyone must make my life and choices difficult.

It is up to the players and their advisers to see what is best for the player.

Continuity is very important for national teams.

He might not be very tall, but he's very useful. Kante wins balls, has great transition play, can be found everywhere, and always has solutions.

We can't really look back and see what is in the rear-view mirror. This is not how you are going to move forward.

In football, you don't hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be dangerous, create opportunities and score goals. And when you don't, you make sure the opposition doesn't.

At the highest level, if you don't have a solid defensive base, you can't get by. In one match, yes. But over a whole competition? No.

It's hard to evolve when you only have fifteen days or three weeks to practice and correct and change tactics.

For me, the goal is to make the most of each player, play them in the position they feel best in. And then repeat, repeat, repeat.