Maradona Quotes: top 68 famous quotes about Maradona

Maradona Quotes & Sayings

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

The Lord helps those who help themselves. — Diego Maradona

Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial. — Diego Maradona

You were only a goalkeeper. — Diego Maradona

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

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far. — Diego Maradona

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. — Emir Kusturica

You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all. — Tommy Docherty

I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs. — Alessandro Del Piero

When I finished with him [Maradona] he was like a racing colt. — Jimmy Burns

Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else. — Adriano Galliani

The last player I truly idolize ... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him.
(on Maradona) — Hristo Stoichkov

What differences were there between Maradona and Platini? — Michel Patini

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us. — Diego Maradona

There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world. — Diego Maradona

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me. — Diego Maradona

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

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

I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius. — Diego Maradona

I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona. — Kevin Keegan

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team. — Diego Maradona

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls — David Pleat

The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi. — Osvaldo Ardiles

I'd give my life to be the national team coach. — Diego Maradona

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway. — Jo Nesbo

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

I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family. — Diego Maradona

When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success. — Diego Maradona

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange. — Michel Patini

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

Beckham is a nice man and I'm sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more. — Diego Maradona

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. — Diego Maradona

To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt. — Diego Maradona

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

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

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world. — Diego Maradona

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

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

Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play. — Adriano Galliani

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

Diego (Maradona) has filled us with emotions. But between the cracks, without doubt, Messi is better than Maradona. — Diego Simeone

Pele should go back to the museum. — Diego Maradona

The Manchester Derby is bigger and more important than El Classico. — Diego Maradona

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

You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks. — Diego Maradona

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't. — Diego Maradona

Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona. — Joey Barton

My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes. — Diego Maradona

I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates. — Pep Guardiola

Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs. — Alessandro Del Piero

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

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy. — Diego Maradona

It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team. — Diego Maradona

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

I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be. — Diego Maradona

All the people that criticised me should eat their words. — Diego Maradona

Even if I played for a million years, I'd never come close to Maradona. Not that I'd want to anyway. He's the greatest there's ever been. — Lionel

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life. — Diego Maradona

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

I'm alive and I want to keep living. — Diego Maradona

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

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands. — Diego Maradona

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. — Diego Maradona

I am not Pele or Maradona — Robbie Savage

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 Maradona

Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief. — Diego Maradona

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. — Diego Maradona

Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona. — Joey Barton