Franck Ribery Quotes

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

Home is where the heart is.

I have much to be grateful for at Bayern, and I feel super comfortable. I can't imagine being at another club.

I've never thought about leaving Anzhi since I came here. Not for a single second.

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

I'm always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.

When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

I believe the relationships and emotions you experience when you have success are the things that last forever.

I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.

I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.

I'm happy because I was proud of what I did at 'SNL.' It's the only time probably in my life that I didn't have any regrets. I worked really hard. I played really nice. I threw myself into it. I committed. Beyond that, what else could I have done?

I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.

My aim is to write my own piece of history - to try to give joy to my family, all Real Madrid supporters and to everyone who believed in me.

I am very happy for the kind of response I am getting for my work, but there was a lot of hard work that has gone into it.