In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

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.

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

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

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

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

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

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

I didn't study; I live.

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

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.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

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

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

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.

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

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

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

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

Every experience makes you a man.

Football lost its excitement for me.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

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

I always knew I had to work hard.

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

I always wanted to play against the best.

I apologize for nothing.

I don't care about the past.

I don't know where my medals are.

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

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

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

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

I have a car but it's not important.

I have great memories.

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

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

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

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

I live to feel myself in danger.