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 MARADONAMy mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
More Diego Maradona Quotes
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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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Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.
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I am black or white, I’ll never be grey in my life.
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It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.
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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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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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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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Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
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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 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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All the people that criticised me should eat their words.
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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.’
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I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.
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Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he’s in a shampoo commercial.
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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.
DIEGO MARADONA