“The Lord helps those who help themselves.”

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

If you don’t want to play clean football then go up into the stands

I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

I’m alive and I want to keep living.

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

I’d give my life to be the national team coach.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I’m used to fat and hairy women journalists.

Everybody in Argentina can remember the hand of God in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the hand of God has brought us an Argentinian pope.

Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he’s in a shampoo commercial.

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.

It’s not my perfect performance that captures God’s attention. It’s my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.