“It’s what you do with the ball that counts. If you are good enough, you can play wherever you want.”
“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”
“I try to use pressure to help me in every game.”
“I always want more. Whether it’s a goal or winning a game, I’m never satisfied.”
“I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we’ve lost. I’m in a bad way. I don’t like to talk to anyone.”
“The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct.”
“My ambition is always to get better and better.”
“The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.”
“I’m lucky to be part of a team that helps me succeed.”
Quotes by Lionel Messi
“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”
“I like to score goals, but I also like to have friends among the people I have played with.”
“I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct.”
“Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better, because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer, I would willingly play for nothing.”
“I think my desire to always get better, [to] always want more, to always be my top critic, and accepting the good and the bad.”
“I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at the moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.”
“You can’t allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before.”
“I start early, and I stay late, day after day, year after year. It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”
“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.”
“When the year starts, the objective is to win with all the collective trophies, personal ones too, to try to win everything.”
“Goals are only important if they win games.”
“You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough.”
“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else.”
“I’ve always really just liked football, and I’ve always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.”
“In football, as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision.”
“It takes sacrifice as well as talent.”
“I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.”
“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with?”
“I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best footballer in the world.”
“I’m always focused on the next goal. I never dwell on the past.”
“You can’t be satisfied with your first success. You need to keep challenging yourself to improve.”