Michel Patini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?
-- Michel Patini

#Differences #Maradona #Platini
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
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
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
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
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.
-- Michel Patini

#Home #Cutting #Player
For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.
-- Michel Patini

#Football #Right Time
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
I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
-- Michel Patini

#Prisoner
For me, football is just a game, not a drama.
-- Michel Patini

#Football #Drama #Games
I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.
-- Michel Patini

#Regret #Careers #No Regrets
It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
-- Michel Patini

#Soccer #Sports #Games
At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
-- Michel Patini

#Finals #Denmark #Groups
What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.
-- Michel Patini

#Football #Orange #Zidane
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

#Clubs #France #World
The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
-- Michel Patini

#Way #Streets #Footballer
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 #World
A football team represents a way of being, a culture.
-- Michel Patini

#Football #Team #Culture
Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.
-- Michel Patini

#Firsts #Messi #Being The Best
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 #Looks
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
-- Michel Patini

#Roles #Vices #Three
Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.
-- Michel Patini

#Winning
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
Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.
-- Michel Patini

#Winning #Games #Draws
In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
-- Michel Patini

#Clock #Cases #Turns
I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
-- Michel Patini

#Goal #Classic #Score
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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