Top 50 Zinedine Zidane Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You don’t need a reason to help people.”

— Zinedine Zidane

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2. “I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.”

— Zinedine Zidane

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3. “I don’t know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It’s a dream.”

— Zinedine Zidane

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4. “I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.”

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5. “Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.”

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6. “Messi is the Mozart of football.”

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7. “If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.”

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8. “Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends.”

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9. “Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.”

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10. “Music was important. Football was the easy part.”

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11. “Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.”

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12. “I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.”

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15. “Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.”

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16. “Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.”

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17. “It’s hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.”

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18. “You can’t get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.”

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19. “I’m very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.”

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20. “Sometimes words are harder than blows.”

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21. “A Mediterranean city is really my culture.”

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22. “I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.”

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23. “Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.”

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24. “If Giggs was French, Pires or myself would have been on the bench.”

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25. “It doesn’t matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.”

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26. “I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.”

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27. “The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.”

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30. “Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.”

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31. “Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there’s been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.”

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32. “We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.”

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33. “We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.”

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34. “My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.”

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35. “My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.”

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36. “We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.”

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37. “When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.”

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38. “All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class.”

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39. “I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.”

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40. “Sometimes I don’t know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.”

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41. “Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “I am supposed to set an example to young players.”

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44. “There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.”

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45. “I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.”

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46. “My memories of events and games are fragmented.”

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47. “Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.”

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48. “It’s the first time it’s happened to me and maybe the last. It’s a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can’t remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.”

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49. “The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.”

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50. “I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.”

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