Top 15 Lionel Messi Quotes

I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground"

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 retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy"

I always thought that if you want to be the best, you have to work harder than everyone else"

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'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"

You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough"

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

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it"

Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream"

I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people."

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.

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."

Allow yourselves to dream and then chase after those dreams. That will always require effort and sacrifice, but be persistent!”

The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct"

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game"