Michel Patini Quotes

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• Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

  Michel Patini

  Believe, Character, Player

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• A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Team, Culture

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• The street is the best way to become a good footballer.

  Michel Patini

  Way, Streets, Footballer

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• The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him

  Michel Patini

  Fighting, Player, Creating

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• What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?

  Michel Patini

  Differences, Maradona, Platini

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• It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

  Michel Patini

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Right Time

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• 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 for a very experienced side.

  Michel Patini

  Song, Team, Swans

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• I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

  Michel Patini

  Regret, Careers, No Regrets

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• A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Player, Careers

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• The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

  Michel Patini

  Memories, Past, Important

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• Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Player, Shopping

  "'I'd stab myself with a sausage!' - French football quotes of 2011" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 21, 2011.

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• Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

  Michel Patini

  Player, Messi, This Generation

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• 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 every single one of its qualifying matches.

  Michel Patini

  Team, Competition, Finals

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• What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Zidane, Orange

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• In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

  Michel Patini

  Getting Older, Aging, Clock

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• 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, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.

  Michel Patini

  Regret, Team, Winning

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• 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 five years. We have to protect against that.

  Michel Patini

  Country, Team, Years

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• Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.

  Michel Patini

  Messi, Firsts, Being The Best

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• I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift

  Michel Patini

  Educated, Wells, Persons

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• If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

  Michel Patini

  Years, Two, Fifa

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• 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 around but I think I was the best at that time.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Running, Player

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• 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 biggest in the world.

  Michel Patini

  World, Clubs, Juventus

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• When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

  Michel Patini

  Ideas, Personality, Finals

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• You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

  Michel Patini

  Vices, Three, Roles

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