Quotes by Lionel Messi

About Lionel Messi:

Lionel Andrés is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and rated by many in the sport as the greatest of all time, Messi is the only football player in history to win four Ballons d'Or, all of which he won consecutively. With Barcelona, he has won seven La Ligas, three Copas del Rey, and four UEFA Champions Leagues, among other honours. As the all-time top scorer in La Liga and the Champions League, he is the first player to win three European Golden Shoes as the continent's league top scorer and the only player to be top scorer in five Champions League seasons.
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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? When I...

Lionel Messi

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

Lionel Messi

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.

Lionel Messi

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

Lionel Messi

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Lionel Messi

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

Lionel Messi

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.

Lionel Messi

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

Lionel Messi

We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.

Lionel Messi

Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importance rather than if they're beautiful or not. Goals scored in finals, for example.

Lionel Messi

On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.

Lionel Messi

Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

Lionel Messi

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.

Lionel Messi

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

Lionel Messi

It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful wi...

Lionel Messi

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

Lionel Messi

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

Lionel Messi

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

Lionel Messi

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa...

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I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But ...

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Author Bio

  • NameLionel Messi
  • DescriptionArgentine association football player
  • AliasesLa Pulga; Lionel Andrés Messi; Leo Messi
  • BornJune 24, 1987
  • CountryArgentina
  • ProfessionAssociation Football Player
  • AwardsEuropean Golden Shoe; Adidas Golden Ball; FIFA Ballon D'Or; FIFA Ballon D'Or; FIFA Ballon D'Or; Ballon D’Or; FIFA World Player Of The Year