Few of the best quotes from France’s new World Cup winners:
“I don’t know where I am... I’m very happy, it was a very difficult match. We can’t wait to lift the cup and bring it back to France.”
— Antoine Griezmann
“Sleep comes easy to me, but I’m not going to bed, we are going to celebrate this. We’ll return to work in a few weeks.”
— Kylian Mbappe
“It’s nothing. It’s normal for us. It’s a crazy thing, we don’t even dare to think about what is happening in France.”
— Adil Rami
“It was a dream, a childhood dream. We are very proud, like all the French, who are on the Champs-Elysees, in Lyon, everywhere. We can’t wait to see them to celebrate tomorrow. We are world champions.”
- Corentin Tolisso.
“I thought about doing a ‘Panenka’ like Zidane, but in the end I opened up my foot.”
- Antoine Griezmann
“(Lifting the trophy) was a touching moment. I had my grandmother, my brother, my sister, my two daughters and my wife in the stands.”
- Captain Hugo Lloris
“OOOUUUUUUUUUIIIIIIIIII! World champions!!!!!”
- The French team’s official English Twitter account
