“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.”

—  Zinedine Zidane

Interview, 2004 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/apr/04/sport.features

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