Michel Patini Quotes

31 quotes in 408 categories

• It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
• What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.
• I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the…
• The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
• If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.
• A football team represents a way of being, a culture.
• Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.
• I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.
• For me, football is just a game, not a drama.
• I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
• Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that,…
• I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
• I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players…
• For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.
• At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off…
• The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won…
• We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song…
• The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after…
• In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
• Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

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