Even if I played for a million years, I’d never come close to Maradona. Not that I’d want to anyway. He’s the greatest there’s ever been.
You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all.
I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.
. . . the last player I truly idolize. . . No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)
Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona.
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates.
He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best. . . Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo.
Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.
The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.
For 20 years they have asked me the same question, who is the greatest? Pele or Maradona? I replay that all you have to do is look at the facts - how many goals did he score with his right foot or with his head?
For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls
I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?
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.
I am not Pele or Maradona
I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.
Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play.
I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.
Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.
