Quotes About Ballon D'or

#1. When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player.

Paolo Maldini

#2. I don't know the parameters for the Ballon d'Or. I only know that Messi deserves to win every trophy

Manuel Pellegrini

#3. If a forward makes a mistake, he can try again. If he scores, he's in with a shout of the Ballon d'Or. But when it's a defender who slips up, it's a far more delicate situation. In percentage terms, the people who play at the back make fewer mistakes than those further forward.

Andrea Pirlo

#4. Winning the Ballon d'Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

Paul Scholes

#5. I can win the Ballon d'Or, but only if Messi's level drops a bit. It will be very complicated to do so if he keeps up his current form. I really believe I can win the award, but there's not much I can do if Messi maintains this level.

Mario Balotelli

#6. Cristiano Ronaldo has done massive things in both the Premier League and in the Champions League, but Messi is the best though and I am convinced that next year he will win the Ballon d'Or.

Yaya Toure

#7. I don't need the Ballon d'Or to know I'm the best. It matters more to some players

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#8. As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year.

David Villa

#9. 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

#10. When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#11. I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

John Irving

#12. As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

J. A. Jance

#13. I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

Kumail Nanjiani

#14. The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation ... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

Harry F. Byrd

#15. In my view
just
when you think you have it
all hanging clear
enter
a blue ballon off-stage left
hammering

Wendy Mulford

#16. Most good writers are good psychologists.

Rachel Ballon

#17. She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said.

Rainbow Rowell

#18. Do you want me to kiss you. Anastasia?" he whispers softly in my ear.
"Yes," I breathe.
"Where?"
"Everywhere.

E.L. James

#19. For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#20. You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used to cross the Atlantic, we've asked British Airways for two of theirs.

Richard Branson

#21. I will never be able to find myself if I isolate myself from the rest of mankind as if I were a different kind of being.

Thomas Merton

#22. My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

Matt Barr

#23. Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

Byron Katie

#24. Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world to be as stress-free as possible. And if golf helps fade the psychic heat from the job, by all means tee it up often, Mr. President.

Mark McKinnon

#25. Fathers remain opaque to their sons, he thought, largely because the sons find it so hard to believe that there's anything in the father worth seeing. Until he's dead, and it's too late. Mercifully, doctors are also opaque to their patients.

Pat Barker

#26. Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe.

Holly Smale

#27. When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

Jimmy Fallon