Diego Maradona Quotes on Football and Confidence

Top Quotes of Diego Maradona

• I’m alive and I want to keep living.
• God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn’t.
• I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.
• If I could apologize 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.
• In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.
• Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
• The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
• To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.
• When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.
• You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don’t take risks.

Diego Maradona Quotes on Football

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.

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If you don’t want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

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Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognize this reality.

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I like English football, always have. It’s just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I’m seen as the real bad boy.

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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.

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

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He feels the ball and that is the difference from the rest.

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It’s a lot of fun to watch him play. He does incredible things with the ball.

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It is an honor for me to be here. I hope I can repay the trust this club has placed in me.

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Diego Maradona Quotes on Coach

I’m not desperate but I know that some day I’ll be the coach again of some team.

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I’d give my life to be the national team coach.

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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.

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Diego Maradona Quotes on Confidence

When you win, you don’t get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

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

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Diego Maradona Quote on Hard work

When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.

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Famous Quotes on Diego Maradona

I am black or white, I’ll never be grey in my life.

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

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I’ll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.

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All the people that criticized me should eat their words.

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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.

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I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.

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There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen – me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

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Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he’s in a shampoo commercial.

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This is a day of great happiness. These guys are true champions, a great team.

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I’ve come to add something and not to take away anyone’s position.

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You are an example for him because you are a conqueror.

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Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

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I’m not desperate but I know that some day I’ll be the coach again of some team.

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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.

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

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Beckham is a nice man and I’m sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.

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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.

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There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.

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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.

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I don’t think it’s the best moment to join the team. I want to make it clear that I don’t want to get in anyone’s way.

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Diego Maradona Quotes on God

In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.

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When God decides its time, I guess he’ll come for us.

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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.

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The Lords helps those who help themselves.

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