“I’ll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.”

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.

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player, Only if we had him at Napoli can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?

I’m not desperate but I know that some day I’ll be the coach again of some team.

Pele should go back to the museum.

Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.

He’s a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

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.

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.

I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, I told them, ‘Come hug me or the referee isn’t going to allow it.’

Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

You were only a goalkeeper.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.