Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.

There is a man who has won the decathlon of human existence.”*

There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.

I love to see T-shirts or flags with Che Guevara, Diego [Maradona] and Argentina anywhere in the world. It gives me a beautiful feeling.

Willie Mays is the greatest ball player I've ever seen. I never saw Joe DiMaggio play, but if Joe DiMaggio was better than Willie Mays, he belongs in Heaven.

There will be a player greater than me.

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

No one ever gets too big to make Mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his Mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything

I don't think I've reached that level yet. Shakib Al Hasan is a megastar. He has dominated the global stage for many years. I don't think it's right to compare myself to him.

It is hard to beat someone who never gives up.

You just can't bowl spin to MS Dhoni in the death overs. He is simply the best in the World.

[on w:Diego Rivera:] ..the one artist on this continent who is in the class of the old masters.

"El capitan!*" (Derek Jeter)