Quotes by Michel Patini

Michel Patini

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.

Careers

Football

Player

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

Culture

Football

Team

At Euro ’92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

Denmark

Finals

Groups

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 sometimes, it can be tough… Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

Cutting

Home

Player

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.

Football

Player

Shopping

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.

Regret

Team

Winning

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.

Believe

Character

Player

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

Football

Right Time

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

Drama

Football

Games

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.

Clubs

Juventus

World

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Aging

Being The Best

Believe

Careers

Character

Classic

Clock

Clubs

Competition

Country

Creating

Culture

Cutting

Denmark

Differences

Drama

Draws

Educated

Fifa

Fighting

Finals

Firsts

Football

Footballer

Games

Getting Older

Goal

Groups

Home

Ideas

Important

Juventus

Maradona

Memories

Messi

No Regrets

Orange

Past

Personality

Persons

Platini

Player

Prisoner

Regret

Right Time

Roles

Running

Score

Shopping

Soccer

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Quotes by Michel Patini

Michel Patini

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.

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

At Euro ’92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

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 sometimes, it can be tough… Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

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.

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.

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.

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

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

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.

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