Messi The Boss
Whether which club you support, you can’t deny Lionel Messi is one the greatest soccer player ever.
In two months time, Lionel Messi will turn 31 and every football fan will suddenly realise that we only have a few more years left before the Barcelona superstar retires.
Hopefully he’ll never lose his love for the game and will continue playing into his 40s because the thought of Messi retiring from football in his early-to-mid 30s should fill every lover of the beautiful game with dread and sadness.
It’s genuinely possible that we’ll never see a player like Messi again in our lifetimes. In the opinion of many football fans, he has surpassed the likes of Pele and Diego Maradona as the greatest footballer of all time.
Of course, there are some people who maintain that Messi must win a World Cup before he can be considered the best ever.
But even if he fails to land his hands on that particular trophy, nobody can take away his extraordinary achievements. More importantly, no football fan will forget the joy he gave them every time he crossed the white line.
Messi, famously humble off the pitch, is hugely respected by his teammates - current and former - as well as his peers.
There have been some brilliant quotes from the great and good of football about the Argentina international - and we’ve decided to collate the best here in one article.
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THE 50 GREATEST EVER QUOTES ABOUT LIONEL MESSI — THE ‘MIRACLE FROM GOD’
1) “They tell me that all men are equal in God’s eyes, this player makes you seriously think about those words.” - soccer commentator Ray Hudson
2) “I have never seen anyone like Leo Messi. He is a miracle from God! I like it when he does his things on the field. It’s not jealousy - I feel good, for instance, when he nutmegs someone.” - Arda Turan
3) “Is Messi a real player or a PlayStation character?” - Radamel Falcao
4) “I like Messi a lot, he’s a great player. Technically, we’re practically at the same level.” - Pele
5) “Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol. Today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.” - Hristo Stoichkov
6) “Messi is the Mozart of soccer.” - Radomir Antic
7) “It is clear that Messi is on a level above all others. Those who do not see that are blind.” - Xavi
8) “For me, to watch Messi play is a pleasure – it’s like having an orgasm – it’s an incredible pleasure.” - Luis Figo
9) “Barca will never have a player like Messi again. Messi’s greatness is present on and off the field of play.” - ex-Barcelona president Sandro Rosell
10) “This Barca will be remembered as Messi’s Barca. He’s well above anything else I’ve ever seen. He’s an alien.” - Carles Puyol
11) “Messi is the best in the world without any doubt and for me the history of soccer.” Luis Enrique
12) “Messi is God, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I’ve watched him grow. He deserves it all.” - Samuel Eto’o
13) “Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.” - Javier Mascherano
14) “Newton and Einstein had a certain level of autism - I hope that, like them, Messi surpasses himself every day and continues to give us his beautiful brand of soccer.” - Romario
15) “Life with Leo is prettier, of another colour.” - Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu
16) “There are three or four important things in life: books, friends, women… and Messi.” - Portuguese writer Antonio Lobo Antunes
17) “Seeing Messi play is like watching a video game… What Messi does on a soccer field is simply unthinkable… The way he walks from side to side, and once he sees an opportunity, he simply creates magic.” - tennis superstar Victoria Azarenka
18) “He is an anomaly. The rest will have to wait until he falls off a little bit.” - Edgar Davids
19) “At this point I’m starting to believe that Messi is tightly related to Clark Kent.” - Bar Rafaeli
20) “Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.” - Franck Ribery
21) “We give him the ball and stand back and watch. People often say to me they saw Pele and Maradona play. In the future, I will be able to say I saw Messi play.” - Thiago Alcantara
22) “He is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal. So as a soccer fan, just enjoy the show.” - Zinedine Zidane
23) “He sees passes that most people can only see whilst watching the game on TV, not ones that you can normally see on the pitch.” - Tata Martino
24) “He does not really seem human to me.” - Luis Enrique
25) “For the world of soccer, Messi is a treasure because he is a role model for children around the world… Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d’Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He’s in a different league.” - Johan Cruyff
26) “I have played against Platini, Maradona, Cruyff and played with George Best — a lot of big names, but none of them has been able to do what Messi does. Two years ago I said that the best player I played against was Maradona and the best player I have played with was Bestie. But I can now say I have never seen a player as good as Messi. He’s in a league of his own.” - Former Tottenham star Gerry Armstrong
27) “Who’s better, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo? Messi. Ronaldo is good, but Messi is 10 times better.” - Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
28) “Diego [Maradona] filled us with emotions. But between the cracks, without doubt, Messi is better than Maradona.” - Diego Simeone
29) “There is no doubt, you’re from another galaxy. Thanks Leo.” - Maxi Rodriguez
30) “Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi.” - Arsene Wenger
31) “I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine soccer and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius.” - Diego Maradona
32) “Messi does not need his right foot. He only uses the left and he’s still the best in the world. Imagine if he also used his right foot, Then we would have serious problems.” - Zlatan Ibrahimovic
33) “Fella’s a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele… Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar.” - Gary Lineker
34) “I played with Romario, Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Laudrup and Stoichkov but Messi is the best I’ve seen.” - Albert Ferrer
35) “It feels good to be in the same generation as him. I believe he’s the best player in the history of the sport.” - Gerard Pique
36) “Messi defies the laws of anatomy, he must have an extra bone in his ankle.” - Carlos Bilardo
37) “Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It’s a pleasure to pit myself against him and when I finish my career it’s something I can look back on and know I’ve tested myself against the very best.” - John Terry
38) “In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the ‘heavy’ shirt of one of the world’s great clubs… Before a game, you can plan for everything. But Messi can produce a move that no-one expects and change the game in an instant.” - Fabio Capello
39) “Messi is better than Maradona; he is more complete, more consistent, more spectacular. He is reinventing the game – a mix of the real and the virtual.” - Tostão
40) “I am not crazy enough to compare myself with Messi because he is the best there ever was and the best there will ever be.” - Mario Gomez
41) “I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them.” - Roy Keane
42) “Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play.” - AC Milan chief Adriano Galliani
43) “He is the best in the world. soccer seems easy when he plays it.” - Bacary Sagna
44) “I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.” - Kobe Bryant
45) “The only bad thing about Ronaldo’s life is Messi. If it was not for him, Ronaldo would be the best player in the world for five years in a row.” - Felipe Scolari
46) “I can’t believe anyone can have played the game of soccer as well as Messi.” - Michael Owen
47) “Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona’s.” - Franz Beckenbauer
48) “Messi or Cristiano? Cristiano Ronaldo is very good, but I prefer Messi. He’s incredible.” - Gheorghe Hagi
49) “Comparing CR7 to Messi is an exercise of ignorance in soccer. Messi is Messi and others, soccerers.” - Spanish manager Miguel Angel Lotina
50) “The other day I saw one of his games. He was running with the ball at a hundred per cent full speed, I don’t know how many touches he took, maybe five or six, but the ball was glued to his foot. It’s practically impossible.” - Real Madrid legend Raul
Bonus: “Don’t write about him, don’t try to describe him. Just watch him.” - Pep Guardiola
Without a World Cup,Messi still the God of football.
THE ‘MIRACLE FROM GOD’.
