Top 100 Quotes About Messi
#1. 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
#2. Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
Michel Patini
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I helped Messi and I know he will do the same with Neymar.
Ronaldinho
#6. Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona.
Joey Barton
#7. When I see Messi - who is the best player in the world in my opinion - lose the ball, he runs off until he gets it back or commits a foul. Our guys lose the ball and fold their arms.
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
#8. Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.
Jurgen Klopp
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The surname Messi comes from the Italian town of Porto Recanati, in the province of Macerata, which saw the birth of the poet Giacomo Leopardi and the tenor Beniamino Gigli.
Luca Caioli
#12. Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better.
Neymar
#13. For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world ... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.
Johan Cruijff
#14. Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.
Carlo Ancelotti
#15. 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
#16. There is no doubt about it, Messi's clearly the best player in the world. He's a phenomenon who has already won everything, but is still hungry for more. His humbleness only makes him greater.
Marco Van Basten
#17. It doesn't matter where Messi plays, if it's cold or hot, he always proves that he's the best.
Gerard Pique
#18. There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women ... and Messi
Antonio Lobo Antunes
#19. Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.
Diego Maradona
#20. Player I would like to sign for Internazionale? It's easy, the strongest in Europe at the moment is Lionel Messi, so I would say him. Messi has amazing qualities, he is the best of all, number one. That is unquestiionable.
Luis Figo
#21. 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
#22. You couldn't put a value on him, he's on another planet. For me, Lionel Messi is undoubtedly the No.1 player in the world.
Harry Redknapp
#23. I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.
Michael Owen
#24. Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!
Franck Ribery
#25. I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.
David Beckham
#26. What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.
Mauricio Pochettino
#27. 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
#28. Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.
John Carlin
#30. The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already ...
Robbie Fowler
#31. Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates
Bernd Schuster
#32. 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
#33. Lionel Messi? When I played against him at Sevilla it was always very difficult, so now I'm pleased that we're on the same side. He's just fantastic.
Dani Alves
#34. Messi the best player in the world by far. I don't think we'll ever see a player like him again.
Tito Vilanova
#35. 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
#36. 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
#38. Messi's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.
Arsene Wenger
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Messi could be the best player in the world - if he was human.
Carlos Queiroz
#42. I don't know the parameters for the Ballon d'Or. I only know that Messi deserves to win every trophy
Manuel Pellegrini
#43. The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi.
Osvaldo Ardiles
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.
Luis Suarez
#47. As far as I see it you just can't give Messi space in the dangerous areas - we have to close him down, get tight and give him as little room as we can because if you don't, he can destroy you.
Frank Lampard
#48. 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
#49. Although he may not be human, it's good that Messi still thinks he is.
Javier Mascherano
#50. The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.
Jose Mourinho
#51. 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
#52. It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.
Frank Rijkaard
#53. When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player.
Paolo Maldini
#54. Messi is out of this world. Scoring 86 goals this year ... In 2012. What an incredible accomplishment
Alex Morgan
#55. 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
#56. Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.
Adriano Galliani
#57. And what's Cristiano's style? With his constant search for perfection, he fits the 'classical' mould. He has constantly refined his play, eliminating even the tiniest flourishes to perfect the most utilitarian form and winning formula. Both he and Messi are products of their footballing
Luca Caioli
#58. Messi and the Brazilian come up to Rafinha and say "you're one of us now kid"
Ray Hudson
#59. Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial.
Diego Maradona
#60. My wife doesn't like Football but she watches it just for Messi.
Roger Federer
#61. Having Messi in the team guarantees everything. He doesn't just score, he gives assists, and he works and wins the ball. He is the best player in the world.
Sergio Busquets
#62. Messi and Neymar will create beauty - just like Picasso's paint brush. I still believe Messi is the best in the world. He has a special magic and is more of a team player than Cristiano. Never before has there been such a difference between the King and the next.
Cesar Luis Menotti
#63. There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.
Carles Puyol
#64. I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.
Kobe Bryant
#65. I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo
Martin O'Neill
#67. They tell me that all men are equal in God's eyes, this player (Messi) makes you seriously think about those words.
Ray Hudson
#68. Messi is the real deal when it comes to Number 10s. He represents a type of football that transcends borders.
Alessandro Del Piero
#69. Everybody at Barcelona loves Messi. They can't speak highly of him
Gordon Strachan
#70. My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.
Carlos Tevez
#71. 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
#72. Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.
Ryan Giggs
#73. Regular readers will know I'm a fan of (Cristiano) Ronaldo, and an even bigger fan of the man who's assumed his mantle with quite astonishing success, Wayne Rooney. But Messi is on a higher plain than even that pair.
Andy Cole
#74. Messi is the number one. No other player is close to him.
Diego Simeone
#75. If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.
Xavi
#76. He's a lucky guy Cristiano, he always gets
first row tickets to see Messi win his awards.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#77. I think Messi is the best forward in the world. It is very difficult to play against him. But he is not only a forward, he is moving everywhere. He is a very good player.
Nemanja Vidic
#78. Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven.
Jurgen Klinsmann
#79. Ronaldo could play for Millwall, QPR, Doncaster Rovers or anyone and he'd score a hat-trick. I'm not sure Messi could do it. Ronaldo's got two feet, he's quick, he's good in the air and he's brave, though Messi's brave too of course. I just think Messi is a Barcelona player.
Alex Ferguson
#80. There's only one that is a little stronger than me: Messi. All the others are behind me.
Mario Balotelli
#81. Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.
Rio Ferdinand
#82. Messi is the world's best and gets physically attacked every game but all he ever does is get up and get on with it.
David Moyes
#84. 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
#85. Messi does incredible things, his stats make you cover your eyes. He cannot be compared to anyone.
David Villa
#86. I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius.
Diego Maradona
#87. Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.
Pele
#88. Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#89. Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.
Harry Redknapp
#90. Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.
Jurgen Klopp
#91. The lad is surprisingly strong and can turn a game with his incredible acceleration before applying a world-class finish. You can't kick Messi out of a game- he rides tackles like a thoroughbred horse.
Osvaldo Ardiles
#92. I have both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as my idols. If I can take a little of each player's game and make it my own, I would be very happy,
Neymar
#93. 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
#94. Messi is the best in the world. Cristiano is a goalscorer. Messi is more taltented, more complete, tactically and footballwise. Cristiano isn't doing those runs anymore like at United. Messi takes more part in the game, I'd always prefer him in my team.
Cesc Fabregas
#96. Everyone knows Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Messi, not only me, but for some it's hard to recognize that.
Didier Drogba
#97. Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet.
Arda Turan
#98. Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.
Eric Cantona
#99. 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
#100. Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.
Franck Ribery
