Top 27 Emmanuel Petit Quotes
#1. You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.
Jamie Redknapp
#2. A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.
Emmanuel Petit
#3. This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years.
Emmanuel Petit
#4. At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn't want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.
Emmanuel Petit
#5. Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.
Emmanuel Petit
#6. You have to grow the same way that you're seeing your own kids grow.
Emmanuel Petit
#7. To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
Vin Scully
#8. If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion everyday.
Emmanuel Petit
#10. Plans are for fools who are naive and selfish. No one can predict anyone's life, no matter how hard they might try. At the end of the day, everyone was gifted with something called free will.
Renee Ericson
#11. I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.
Emmanuel Petit
#12. I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes my names have meanings such as 'strong', 'fire', and Phoenix which means dark red and is Greek. It's fun to think of a name meaning and matching it with a name. Even Frances means Victory.
Franny Armstrong
#13. Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here.
Emmanuel Petit
#14. I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.
Emmanuel Petit
#15. If you start to focus on your opponent then you see so much quality in your opponents and weaknesses in your own side. You start to put doubts in your mind. You need to respect your opponents but that's it, no more.
Emmanuel Petit
#16. People want to be connected to be everyone at anytime. They want to talk about their passions, they want to talk about their private life, they want to have the right to speak.
Emmanuel Petit
#17. So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.
Sheryl Sandberg
#18. I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.
Emmanuel Petit
#19. France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.
Emmanuel Petit
#20. The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.
Michio Kaku
#21. It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.
Emmanuel Petit
#22. If I had the choice I would live in London. There are a few things I don't like about England but its just details, I don't really think about them but I really like England and I really like London.
Emmanuel Petit
#23. I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.
Emmanuel Petit
#24. Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.
Emmanuel Petit
#25. Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
Zac Posen
#26. So many people want to live their lives and their dreams through their own Facebook page or their Twitter page. They want to show every detail of their life to everyone in the world. That scares me because I don't have any Facebook page or Twitter I don't like it, I don't want it.
Emmanuel Petit
#27. The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.
Bernhard Schlink
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