Messi Quotes - Page 5

• Messi or Cristiano - Speed? Cristiano. Shot? Cristiano. Dribbling? Messi. Intelligence? Messi. Talent? Messi. Winner is Messi!

  Usain Bolt

  Talent, Winner, Speed

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• Messi is the world's best and gets physically attacked every game but all he ever does is get up and get on with it.

  David Moyes

  Games, Doe, World

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• Diego (Maradona) has filled us with emotions. But between the cracks, without doubt, Messi is better than Maradona.

  Diego Simeone

  Doubt, Cracks, Emotion

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• Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.

  LeBron James

  Player, World, Being The Best

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• Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Years, Different, Levels

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• The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already.

  Robbie Fowler

  Player, Thinking, Shadow

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• This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen.

  Gary Neville

  Eye, Player, Thinking

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• Cristiano Ronaldo has done massive things in both the Premier League and in the Champions League, but Messi is the best though and I am convinced that next year he will win the Ballon d'Or.

  Yaya Toure

  Winning, Cristiano Ronaldo, Champions League

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• Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Player, Zidane, Best Players

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• Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.

  Luol Deng

  Team, Player, Becoming The Best

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• I am also amazed with Messi, what he is doing is very good. He contributes alot of very good things for the team. He is an individualist, but he always plays for the team.He covers well at the back, is organized and finishes well with both feet. He is mischievous, and is a very intelligent player. He applies pressure just where the pressure is needed.

  Alfredo Di Stefano

  Team, Intelligent, Player

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• What Messi does is terrifying. It's indescribable magic. You can't analyze it.

  Cesar Luis Menotti

  Magic, Doe, Indescribable

  "Menotti rinde culto a la magia de Messi". Spanish Daily newspaper "Sport", www.sport.es. February 17, 2015.

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• Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.

  Pep Guardiola

  Player, Today, Irreplaceable

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• [Lionel Messi] is great in any position.

  Neymar

  Position

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• Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable.

  Fabio Capello

  Running, Unstoppable

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• I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Thinking

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• I think playing against [Lionel Messi] is pretty difficult. Playing by the side of the best of the world is always good. Things get easier. And if I have to win, may it be by Messi's side. It would be great.

  Neymar

  Winning, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: neymarwithlove.tumblr.com

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• I don't know the parameters for the Ballon d'Or. I only know that Messi deserves to win every trophy.

  Manuel Pellegrini

  Winning, Trophies, Parameters

  "Pellegrini: Messi Deserves to Win Every Individual Honor". Interview with Mark Doyle, www.goal.com. May 03, 2012.

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• People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Sex, Jealous, Player

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• PSG's project is to dream bigger, but if you buy Messi, you don't dream bigger - you are bigger!

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Dream, Projects, Bigger

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• Player I would like to sign for Internazionale? It's easy, the strongest in Europe at the moment is Lionel Messi, so I would say him. Messi has amazing qualities, he is the best of all, number one. That is unquestiionable.

  Luis Figo

  Player, Europe, Numbers

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• I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible. Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.

  Paul Scholes

  Spring, Eye, Thinking

  "Lionel Messi Is a Genius and It Only Takes a Second for Him to Trick You Into Doing Something Daft – I Should Know!". Paul Scholes Column, www.independent.co.uk. February 19, 2015.

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• 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.

  Oliver Kahn

  Successful, Winning, Player

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• Messi has all the conditions to be the best.

  Romario

  Being The Best, Conditions

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• Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona.

  Joey Barton

  Years, Games, Play

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