Messi Quotes

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

Seeing Messi play is like watching a video game. ~ Victoria Azarenka

IT IS NOT COINCIDENCE THAT AT BARCELONA WE HAVE LOW-KEY LIFESTYLES AND WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL. WE KNOW WE ARE FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND NOT MOVIE STARS. ~ Lionel Messi

Barcelona is my life. They have brought me to where I am today. I could not leave, I don't want to leave. I know the Premier League is very good. But I cannot see myself playing in England because my heart is with Barcelona, always. ~ Lionel Messi

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen. ~ Lionel Messi

There's no doubt. Its certain that ill be 100 percent ~ Lionel Messi

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary. ~ Lionel Messi

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. ~ Lionel Messi

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

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air. ~ Pele

Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble! ~ Franck Ribery

Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi is more of a genius than Cristiano. Cristiano is so strong physically, so powerful, but Messi has more creativity. ~ Fabio Capello

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy. ~ Lionel Messi

It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those around him. In private, Messi is a great leader, a great captain. Usually the best in any area see things differently but in this case Leo is still an ordinary person and that makes our relationship work. He's the leader of ARG, he has helped us to reach two finals in one year. I have great respect for Messi the person and player. ~ Javier Mascherano

I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo ~ Martin O'Neill

YOU KNOW AS A PLAYER THAT YOU WON'T HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO PLAY IN WORLD CUPS - SO YOU HAVE TO TAKE THEM WHEN YOU CAN. ~ Lionel Messi

It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively. ~ Boris Becker

Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world. ~ Oliver Kahn

The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out. ~ Jose Mourinho

Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy. ~ Lionel Messi

NO MATTER WHAT YOU ACHIEVE, EVERY SEASON IS A NEW SEASON. WHAT YOU ACHIEVED THE SEASON BEFORE IS NO LONGER RELEVANT. ~ Lionel Messi

It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so. ~ Lionel Messi

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football. ~ John Carlin

If Messi is the best on the planet, Ronaldo is the best in the universe. ~ Jose Mourinho

A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of a sheep ~ Lionel Messi

Messi is the number one. No other player is close to him. ~ Diego Simeone

There is no defence that can stop Messi. It is impossible. ~ Pep Guardiola

I don't look at records, that's not why I'm playing the game. Goals, of course. Every player in my position wants to score goals. But most of all, trophies. My target is always to win trophies for Barcelona, and that will always be my motivation, to win things. Nothing feels better than doing that as a team. ~ Lionel Messi

We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment. ~ Lionel Messi

Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi. ~ Hristo Stoichkov

Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place. ~ Pep Guardiola

I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing. ~ Kobe Bryant

Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever. ~ Luol Deng

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football. ~ Xavi

I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training ~ Lionel Messi

Hacking is a talent. You won't learn it at school. It's like being Messi or C.Ronaldo. If you were born to become a Hacker, it's your destiny. Otherwise, you'll be Hacked. ~ Amine Essiraj

I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches. ~ Alex Ferguson

Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better. ~ Neymar

It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi. ~ Frank Rijkaard

This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen. ~ Gary Neville

People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row. ~ Luiz Felipe Scolari

Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet. ~ Arda Turan

Messi is a Playstation. ~ Arsene Wenger

They tell me that all men are equal in God's eyes, this player (Messi) makes you seriously think about those words. ~ Ray Hudson

Messi could be the best player in the world - if he was human. ~ Carlos Queiroz

What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open. ~ Mauricio Pochettino

I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it. ~ Lionel Messi

We are at a good level. Our secret is that we play the same way against each opponent. ~ Lionel Messi

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody. ~ Lionel Messi

I have never been concerned about winning the Ballon d'Or or being the best player in the world. The best player is already here and that's Messi. And now I can see him from close up and help him. ~ Neymar

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary. ~ Franck Ribery

Fatherhood changes you completely. If things didn't go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn't want to see or listen to anyone. Now, when I arrive home, I see my son and everything is OK. He's the most important thing to me now. ~ Lionel Messi

Messi the best player in the world by far. I don't think we'll ever see a player like him again. ~ Tito Vilanova

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

My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way. ~ Lionel Messi

I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me. ~ Lionel Messi

I love soccer, love tennis ... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles ... The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable ... He is so calm ... In soccer, I'm a huge fan of Barcelona ... I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa. ~ Virat Kohli

OF COURSE MONEY TAKES WORRY OUT OF YOUR LIFE AND ENABLES YOU TO PROVIDE FOR YOUR FAMILY - BUT IF IT WAS PLAYING PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL FOR FREE OR CHOOSE ANOTHER LIVING, THEN I WOULD CHOOSE FOOTBALL EVERY TIME. ~ Lionel Messi

He's a lucky guy Cristiano, he always gets
first row tickets to see Messi win his awards. ~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Messi does not need his right foot. He only uses the left and he's still the best in the world. Imagine if he also used his right foot, Then we would have serious problems. ~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Messi won 3 Ballons d'Or and is competing for another one. He will be the best player in the world until he retires. ~ Sergio Aguero

Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele ... Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar. ~ Gary Lineker

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. ~ Lionel Messi

For me, Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It's a pleasure to put myself against him and when I finish my career it's something I can look back on and know I've tested myself against the very best. ~ John Terry

I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi. ~ Paul Scholes

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

I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground. ~ Lionel Messi

The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two or three players and is happy to give an assist to a teammate, it makes him more dangerous than ever before. ~ Michael Laudrup

I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me. ~ David Beckham

Nowadays, Messi is better than Ronaldinho. He is the best footballer in the world right now. And I'm not the only who says so. Everyone who has seen him play says so too. ~ Sergio Aguero

I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I've ever seen. I don't dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can't find them. ~ Roy Keane

Everyone knows Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Messi, not only me, but for some it's hard to recognize that. ~ Didier Drogba

Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show. ~ Zinedine Zidane

Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play. ~ Alessandro Del Piero

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch. ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

Everyday Leo Messi surprises us with something different. ~ Dani Alves

Messi is God, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I've watched him grow. He deserves it all. ~ Samuel Eto'o

6. ANDRES INIESTA - SPAIN (No matter what they say six is better than seven) 5. DAVID BECKHAM - ENGLAND (High five!) 4. KAKA - BRAZIL (I'm number four on the list but number one in your heart) 3. DIEGO MARADONA - ARGENTINA (I'm the trifecta!) 2. LIONEL MESSI - ARGENTINA (Watch out I'm right behind you.) 1. PELE - BRAZIL (Knock knock, who's there? Best, Best who, Best Ever) ~ Alex Trost

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me. ~ Lionel Messi

You have got to love the game. ~ Lionel Messi

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't. ~ Lionel Messi

It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things. ~ Lionel Messi

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best ~ Neymar

Barcelona is my home and I hope that I stay here for many years. ~ Lionel Messi

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. ~ Lionel Messi

If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius. ~ Fabio Capello

We know that we are close to making history. ~ Lionel Messi

Without Messi there isn't a team for Argentina, Messi is brilliant, different, with a strong mentality. Let's hope he doesn't change. ~ Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Messi is a natural born talent, that is not to say he doesn't work hard, but you can't teach what he can do. ~ Deco

Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet. ~ Lionel Messi

I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays. ~ Johan Cruyff

Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better. ~ Henrik Larsson

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. ~ Lionel Messi

At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet. ~ Lionel Messi

I'm not sure Messi is a human. ~ Ander Herrera

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer. ~ Eduardo Galeano

Messi has all the conditions to be the best. ~ Romario

I've got a magnificent relationship with Leo (Messi) and Ney (Neymar). They drive the team, with Andres Iniesta as well - what a player. You know if you have a good relationship with them off the pitch it will be that way on the pitch too. They took it as a sign that I had come to help them, not to compete with them. ~ Luis Suarez

Barca is more than a club and a great team and I want to contribute to Messi staying the best for many years, ~ Neymar

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems. ~ Lionel Messi