I waited for a long time for a call-up for Les Bleus, but that call never came.
With every side I've played for, I've always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that's what's happened with Les Bleus.
All the coaches I've had have been important for me, whether it was Joel Muller at Metz, Rolland Courbis at Marseille, Manuel Pellegrini at Villarreal or Roger Lemerre with Les Bleus. All of them were important along the way, and each of them had faith in me and let me play.
I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.
I had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn't really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to see what else is out there for me. But after about six or seven months away from the game, I just decided that the whole college life wasn't for me and that's why I decided to come back.
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The smallest errors are always the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
[Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
[Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,
Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
When I decided to come back, I wanted to prove to the rest of the world I'm still the best.
I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it.
My family has loved Minnesota and that was one of the big reasons we decided to come back. For me, family decisions were a big part to coming back to the Twins.
Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.
Kill them all; for God knoweth them that are His. (Tuez-les tous; Dieu reconnaitra les siens.)
Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.