101 Quotes by Diego Maradona

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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