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. I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.

Lionel Messi

#4. From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.

Lionel Messi

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

Lionel Messi

#8. I helped Messi and I know he will do the same with Neymar.

Ronaldinho

#9. Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona.

Joey Barton

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.

Lionel Messi

#16. Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better.

Neymar

#17. 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

#18. Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.

Carlo Ancelotti

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. It doesn't matter where Messi plays, if it's cold or hot, he always proves that he's the best.

Gerard Pique

#22. There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women ... and Messi

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#23. Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.

Diego Maradona

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.

Lionel Messi

#27. 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

#28. I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.

Michael Owen

#29. Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!

Franck Ribery

#30. Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.

Lionel Messi

#31. I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

David Beckham

#32. When my son will be born, my first goal will be for him. The rest, will be as always for my grandmother.

Lionel Messi

#33. The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.

Lionel Messi

#34. What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

Mauricio Pochettino

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

John Carlin

#38. Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#39. The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already ...

Robbie Fowler

#40. I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

Lionel Messi

#41. Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

Bernd Schuster

#42. 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

#43. Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

Lionel Messi

#44. 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

#45. I use Herbalife products on and off the field for energy and focus. That way I can play my best game

Lionel Messi

#46. I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.

Lionel Messi

#47. I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.

Lionel Messi

#48. Messi the best player in the world by far. I don't think we'll ever see a player like him again.

Tito Vilanova

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

Lionel Messi

#52. We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.

Lionel Messi

#53. Lionel Messi is the Best Player Ever.

Graeme Souness

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. Messi could be the best player in the world - if he was human.

Carlos Queiroz

#58. I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.

Lionel Messi

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

Manuel Pellegrini

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

Osvaldo Ardiles

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. Ronaldinho was a trickster, an artist with the ball. Leo represents the essence of the game: speed plus skill.

Luca Caioli

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Lionel Messi

#67. 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

#68. Although he may not be human, it's good that Messi still thinks he is.

Javier Mascherano

#69. 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

#70. I JUST GET ON WITH MY GAME AND LET THE REFEREES DO THEIR JOB.

Lionel Messi

#71. It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

Lionel Messi

#72. 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

#73. My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way.

Lionel Messi

#74. It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.

Frank Rijkaard

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

Paolo Maldini

#76. Messi is out of this world. Scoring 86 goals this year ... In 2012. What an incredible accomplishment

Alex Morgan

#77. Goals are only important if they win games.

Leo Messi

#78. It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

Lionel Messi

#79. 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

#80. My ambition is always to get better and better.

Lionel Messi

#81. Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.

Adriano Galliani

#82. Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

Lionel Messi

#83. I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

Lionel Messi

#84. 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

#85. At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.

Lionel Messi

#86. Messi and the Brazilian come up to Rafinha and say "you're one of us now kid"

Ray Hudson

#87. Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial.

Diego Maradona

#88. I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

Lionel Messi

#89. Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.

Lionel Messi

#90. My wife doesn't like Football but she watches it just for Messi.

Roger Federer

#91. For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

Lionel Messi

#92. I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change.

Lionel Messi

#93. 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

#94. You have got to love the game.

Lionel Messi

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. FROM THE FIRST DAY YOU ARE TOLD IF YOU WANT TO BE THE BEST THEN STAY OUT THE NIGHTCLUBS!

Lionel Messi

#98. I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.

Kobe Bryant

#99. I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo

Martin O'Neill

#100. Messi is a Playstation.

Arsene Wenger