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.’
DIEGO MARADONAPeople 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.
More Diego Maradona Quotes
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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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Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.
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My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
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When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.
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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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All the people that criticised me should eat their words.
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Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.
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When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.
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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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I’ll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
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It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.
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While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team’s victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.
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You were only a goalkeeper.
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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
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I’d give my life to be the national team coach.
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