Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine Zidane

23-Jun-1972


France


Football Coach

Zinedine Zidane learned early in his life from his emigrant father “that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.” Talking about his background, he has later said that he felt privileged that he came from a “difficult area” like La Castellane, because “it teaches you not just about football but also life.” Indeed, in his interviews he has talked freely about his family and his background, his passions and aspirations, his childhood days. However, being a reputed footballer, his interviews centre mostly on his game and in them he has talked extensively on football in general and his career in particular. Let us now look into some of his inspirational quotes on work, persistence, football, hope, love, happiness, challenge etc.

QUOTES BY Zinedine Zidane


The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in soccer, and I want to profit from it to the maximum.

I have always said the French team is the most important thing that has happened to me. I thought deeply about it and I want to play for France again.

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

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.

It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.

Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He's magical.

Messi is the Mozart of football.

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