“At 15, I was playing with the C team at Reims and I wanted to leave. I...” — Robert Pires Quote

“At 15, I was playing with the C team at Reims and I wanted to leave. It's a difficult age for a kid - I wanted to go out with my mates, party... girls... that happens to everyone. Luckily, my mum told me: 'You don't know what you want, it's football - it's your dream and it could be a great job.' She was right.”

“You can't know where you're going when you're a coach.”

“In England, football is a religion. In France, football is not a religion. It's wine and food.”

“I think my dad's done a great job of letting others have their turn when his term was over and not being out there grandstanding and trying to say, 'Well, this is what I think, and I need to get the news and be on the news and' - he's not like that.”

“I could sit down and give USADA my opinions on it, but I want to say they've done a great job. Guys like me are shining because of USADA.”

“The research center at VCU has really done a great job of welcoming us in and we've contributed a lot of money to them because they do a lot of the research for cystic fibrosis.”