Maradona quotes:

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  • I am not Pele or Maradona -- Robbie Savage
  • What differences were there between Maradona and Platini? -- Michel Patini
  • I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates. -- Pep Guardiola
  • For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls -- David Pleat
  • Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona. -- Joey Barton
  • Diego (Maradona) has filled us with emotions. But between the cracks, without doubt, Messi is better than Maradona. -- Diego Simeone
  • Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play. -- Adriano Galliani
  • Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else. -- Adriano Galliani
  • I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. -- Emir Kusturica
  • ...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona) -- Hristo Stoichkov
  • 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
  • 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
  • He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table. -- Franz Beckenbauer
  • Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best. -- Xavi
  • For 20 years they have asked me the same question, who is the greatest? Pele or Maradona? I replay that all you have to do is look at the facts - how many goals did he score with his right foot or with his head? -- Pele
  • 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
  • Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Lionel Messi without question fits into that category. -- Alex Ferguson
  • The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona. -- 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 am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody. -- Diego Maradona
  • I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona. -- Kevin Keegan
  • What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange. -- Michel Patini
  • The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway. -- Jo Nesbo
  • The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi. -- Osvaldo Ardiles
  • Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs. -- Alessandro Del Piero
  • Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele. -- Michel Patini
  • As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different. -- Daniel Alarcon
  • As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different. -- Daniel Alarcon
  • Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's. -- Franz Beckenbauer
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  • Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given. -- Lionel Messi
  • I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me. -- Alex Ferguson
  • He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around. -- Ander Herrera
  • I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster. -- Ryan Giggs
  • 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
  • You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all. -- Tommy Docherty
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