It is always good to be careful or vigilant.
Didier Deschamps
Benzema is a team player, he is very important for us. He always wants to score with us, but scoring is not everything to him.
Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.
That's what international football is all about - be able to bounce after a bad performance.
The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.
Sometimes it doesn't take much to slip back into bad habits.
The key thing is knowing how to adapt. Adapting to the group that you have at your disposal; adapting to the place where you're working; adapting to the local environment. This is crucial: adaptability.
Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can't fight that, I have to adapt and change.
History is in the past and tomorrow we will try and write a new page.
All the great teams need a real top striker in order to win in Europe.
Competition is for everyone.
Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that.
When there are hard times, the trend is to question yourself and to dig deep but when things go well you shouldn't relax and think things come easy or you need to put in less effort.
My past as a player is strongly linked to the red, white and blue France shirt.
One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.
It's not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you're telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you're in trouble.
Football is my passion.
When you go to a club abroad and play against one from your own country, you are part of the enemy.
Brazil is the land of football. They have a lot of passion.
It's hard to evolve when you only have fifteen days or three weeks to practice and correct and change tactics.
Continuity is very important for national teams.
An invitation to the national team is not a declaration of love.
Sport is a way of uniting people.
You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.
Paul Pogba can do everything but he cannot do everything all alone.
You can't wake up one morning and say, 'Right, now I'm going to be a leader.' I think it is something that's in you, that you're born with, and which develops. Some people have that character, that personality and it comes naturally. You can't force it. It has to be authentic and natural. Innate.
Managing players is harder these days because of the arrival of new technology. They are all using it in their spare time so they become more isolated and selfish. They share less, they talk less. They have apps, their phones and the Internet but they are less used to talking to people.
For me, I always considered that a group is above everything else.
I'm not immune to disciplinary problems and it's up to me to make strong choices. It's my responsibility.
Look, I was a water carrier, I don't reject my image. I didn't have the pretension to think that I could change a match by myself.
Quality has no age.
There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo.
While there is life, there is hope.
At the highest level, if you don't have a solid defensive base, you can't get by. In one match, yes. But over a whole competition? No.
My departure from Juve remains a regret, a mistake that taught me one thing - never make an immediate decision, at the end of the season, when everyone is 'boiling.' I have paid for such an experience.
It happens to attackers that they have a longer or shorter period where they are not always efficient.
There are a lot of Kylians, but only one Kylian Mbappe.
Kylian is able to do extraordinary things. Look at his stats. He is efficient.
We do not do everything perfectly, but the intentions are there.
What's important is you mustn't focus too early and try to play the game before it actually begins.
Playing an ultra-defensive side is very difficult.
For a player or coach, there is nothing better than the World Cup.
You always learn, especially in failure.
I wish Kylian to have the same career as Thierry Henry.
When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.
Even when things are going well, there are always aspects that can be improved.
We can always improve everything.
We can't hide from the truth.
For Euro 2016, we must remain humble, but we have the ambition to go as far as possible.
With the support of all our fans, we have to be stronger than our opponents.
