Lionel Quotes

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

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

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

Barcelona is my home and I hope that I stay here for many years.

My ambition is always to get better and better.

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

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.

If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

Your secret is safe with me, Kal-El

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

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

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

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

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

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.

Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

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.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

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