Top 64 Quotes & Sayings by Diego Maradona

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Argentinian athlete Diego Maradona.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award. Maradona's vision, passing, ball control, and dribbling skills were combined with his small stature, which gave him a low centre of gravity allowing him to manoeuvre better than most other players. His presence and leadership on the field had a great effect on his team's general performance, while he would often be singled out by the opposition. In addition to his creative abilities, he possessed an eye for goal and was known to be a free kick specialist. A precocious talent, Maradona was given the nickname "El Pibe de Oro", a name that stuck with him throughout his career. He also had a troubled off-field life and was banned in both 1991 and 1994 for abusing drugs.

Argentinian - Athlete | Born: October 30, 1960

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If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

Diego Maradona

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.

Diego Maradona

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

Diego Maradona

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

Diego Maradona

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.

Diego Maradona

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.

Diego Maradona

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

Diego Maradona

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

Diego Maradona

There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.

Diego Maradona

I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.

Diego Maradona

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.

Diego Maradona

I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.

Diego Maradona

Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope.

Diego Maradona

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

Diego Maradona

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

Diego Maradona

Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.

Diego Maradona

Beckham is a nice man and I'm sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.

Diego Maradona

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.

Diego Maradona

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.

Diego Maradona

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

Diego Maradona

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

Diego Maradona

You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks.

Diego Maradona

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

Diego Maradona

I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.

Diego Maradona

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

Diego Maradona

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

Diego Maradona

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

Diego Maradona

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

Diego Maradona

In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.

Diego Maradona

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

Diego Maradona

To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.

Diego Maradona

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

Diego Maradona

I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

Diego Maradona

Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.

Diego Maradona

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

Diego Maradona

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent

Diego Maradona

You were only a goalkeeper.

Diego Maradona

Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.

Diego Maradona

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

Diego Maradona

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

Diego Maradona

My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.

Diego Maradona

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

Diego Maradona

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the field. I feel I would be betraying Him if I didn't.

Diego Maradona

It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.

Diego Maradona

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands

Diego Maradona

People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn't see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There's always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people's vote.

Diego Maradona

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

Diego Maradona

The Lord helps those who help themselves.

Diego Maradona

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

Diego Maradona

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

Diego Maradona

Everybody in Argentina can remember the hand of God in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the hand of God has brought us an Argentinian pope.

Diego Maradona

He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

Diego Maradona

Pele should go back to the museum.

Diego Maradona

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.'

Diego Maradona

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

Diego Maradona

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.

Diego Maradona

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Diego Maradona

The Manchester Derby is bigger and more important than El Classico.

Diego 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.

Diego Maradona

Top 64 Quotes & Sayings by Diego Maradona

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