[4] Some of Thierry Roland's expressions in his comments of matches, such as: "These two will not spend their holidays together", "Broke like a rabbit in full flight", "He swallowed the trumpet", "The balloon is went in the zig and he went in the zag "," He did not make the trip for nothing "or" This is not the right line of Longchamp ", contributed to his popularity.

Michel Hidalgo told me yesterday that Romanians were the easiest to buy ", its sexism and some expressions with racist connotation or simply abusive.

His particular style earned him a recurring caricature of the humorous show Les Guignols de l'info.

When France beat Brazil 3–0 in the 1998 World Cup final, he said on TF1's broadcast, Après avoir vu ça, on peut mourir tranquille.

Following the death of Thierry Roland, a minute of silence was observed in his honor during the France-Sweden UEFA Euro 2012 match in Kyiv.