Diego Maradona famous quotes

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

#Goal #Messi #Celebrate

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

#Important #Bigger

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

#Football #Player #Names

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

#Mistake #Kids

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

#Waiting #Hug #Teammate

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
-- Diego Maradona

#Player #Goal #Champion

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

#Mother #Believe #Thinking

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

#Team #Victory #Opponents

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

#Beautiful #Football #Player

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.
-- Diego Maradona

#Country #Hands #Argentina

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

#Hate #United States #I Hate

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

#Mischief

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

#America #Faces #Championship

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

#World #Cups #Advantage

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

#Country #Stars #Team

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

#Would Be #World #Debate

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 Maradona

#Play #Would Be #Fields

Pele should go back to the museum.
-- Diego Maradona

#Museums #Should

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

#Mistake #Fighting #Goal

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

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

#People #Should

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

#Football #Reality #People

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

#White #Black #Grey

You were only a goalkeeper.
-- Diego Maradona

#Soccer #Football #Goalkeepers

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

#Soccer #Football #Country

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

#Team #Giving #Coaches

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

#Children #Father #Play

Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them "I want to go to Buenos Aires" and they say "No, Carlitos, stay here now, we'll give you more money". And then he gets more money!
-- Diego Maradona

#Football #Giving #Buenos Aires

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

#Football #Play #Want

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

#Team #Desperate #Coaches

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

#Alive #Want

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

#Want #My Family #Enjoy

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

#Player #Mind #Jersey

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

#Football #Winning #Steps

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

#Firsts #Should #Careful

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

#Running #Men #Balls

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

#Team #Skins #Shirts

The Lord helps those who help themselves.
-- Diego Maradona

#Helping #Lord

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

#Football #Hands

Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football
-- Diego Maradona

#Football #Running #People

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

#Soccer #Hands #Goal