All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

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

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

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

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

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.

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.'

Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God.

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

The Lord helps those who help themselves.

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

You are the author of your life. If you don't like how it goes, write it differently.

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work

Dreams are so important. You need to have big goals and expect a lot of yourself but you have to enjoy the ride too.

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.