1.
When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.
Diego Maradona
2.
Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial.
Diego Maradona
3.
My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me
Diego Maradona
4.
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
Diego Maradona
5.
I've seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentinian football and his name is Messi... He's a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football.
Diego Maradona
6.
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.'
Diego Maradona
7.
Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God.
Diego Maradona
8.
To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world
Diego Maradona
9.
The Lord helps those who help themselves.
Diego Maradona
10.
If I could apologise 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
Diego Maradona
11.
I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.
Diego Maradona
12.
The Manchester Derby is bigger and more important than El Classico.
Diego Maradona
13.
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.
Diego Maradona
14.
What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.
Diego Maradona
15.
My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.
Diego Maradona
16.
When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.
Diego Maradona
17.
I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.
Diego Maradona
18.
I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.
Diego Maradona
19.
I'm alive and I want to keep living.
Diego Maradona
20.
There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
Diego Maradona
21.
Pele should go back to the museum.
Diego Maradona
22.
You were only a goalkeeper.
Diego Maradona
23.
When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.
Diego Maradona
24.
If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands
Diego Maradona
25.
He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.
Diego Maradona
26.
It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.
Diego Maradona
27.
I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
Diego Maradona
28.
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.
Diego Maradona
29.
All the people that criticised me should eat their words.
Diego Maradona
30.
God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the field. I feel I would be betraying Him if I didn't.
Diego Maradona
31.
I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.
Diego Maradona
32.
Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.
Diego Maradona
33.
Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?
Diego Maradona
34.
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
Diego Maradona
35.
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
Diego Maradona
36.
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.
Diego Maradona
37.
I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.
Diego Maradona
38.
Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.
Diego Maradona
39.
Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
Diego Maradona
40.
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.
Diego Maradona
41.
When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.
Diego Maradona
42.
Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.
Diego Maradona
43.
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be
Diego Maradona
44.
The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
Diego Maradona
45.
I'd give my life to be the national team coach.
Diego Maradona
46.
Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them "I want to go to Buenos Aires" and they say "No, Carlitos, stay here now, we'll give you more money". And then he gets more money!
Diego Maradona
47.
I'm not desperate [but] I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.
Diego Maradona
48.
I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
Diego Maradona
