I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
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 don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life.
I don't care about the past.
We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.
I don't want to go to Hollywood.
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 always knew I had to work hard.
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.
Football lost its excitement for me.
Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.
I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.
It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.
Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
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.
You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.
It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.
