God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the field. I feel I would be betraying Him if I didn’t.
DIEGO MARADONAThere would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen – me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
More Diego Maradona Quotes
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All the people that criticised me should eat their words.
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What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I’m used to fat and hairy women journalists.
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I’ve seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentinian football and his name is Messi. He’s a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football.
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If you don’t want to play clean football then go up into the stands
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I am black or white, I’ll never be grey in my life.
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People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn’t see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There’s always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people’s vote.
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There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen – me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
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To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.
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You were only a goalkeeper.
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Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player, Only if we had him at Napoli can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?
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The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
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I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
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I’m not desperate but I know that some day I’ll be the coach again of some team.
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He’s a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.
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Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
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At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It’s difficult to explain.
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Pele should go back to the museum.
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Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
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My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.
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I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.
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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.
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I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.
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When God decides its time, I guess he’ll come for us.
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I’m alive and I want to keep living.
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Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.
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Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.
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