Quotes About Di Stefano

#1. 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

#2. RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend.

Sergio Ramos

#3. Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Eduardo Galeano

#4. The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi.

Osvaldo Ardiles

#5. The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

Alfredo Di Stefano

#6. I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat,

Alfredo Di Stefano

#7. Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that

Alfredo Di Stefano

#8. The most complete footballer in the history of the game.

Eusebio

#9. A 0-0 is like a Sunday without sun.

Alfredo Di Stefano

#10. There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews

Winston Churchill

#11. He was simply the most intelligent football player I ever saw. If I had one player to choose, out of all of them, to save my life, he'd be the one.

Bobby Charlton

#12. No one player is as good as the sum of a team

Alfredo Di Stefano

#13. If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.

Paul Broun

#14. I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

Susanne Bier

#15. I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'.

Alfredo Di Stefano

#16. Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.

Alfredo Di Stefano

#17. I chose Real Madrid instead of Barcelona because I'm a winner, not a loser

Alfredo Di Stefano

#18. Don Alfredo, greatest legend of Real Madrid, always with us. I will always remember maestro.

Iker Casillas

#19. A great amongst the greats.

Michel Platini

#20. Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

Jay Abraham

#21. Don Alfredo leaves us, but his memory will last forever in our hearts. Legends never die. Thanks for everything Maestro.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#22. Women on trains
have a life
that is exactly livable
the precision of days flashing past

Audre Lorde

#23. Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness.

Stephen Nachmanovitch