Top 40 Diego Maradona Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.”

— Diego Maradona

2. “The Lord helps those who help themselves.”

— Diego Maradona

3. “When you win, you don’t get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.”

— Diego Maradona

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

— Diego Maradona

5. “Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God.”

— Diego Maradona

6. “I am black or white, I’ll never be grey in my life.”

— Diego Maradona

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

— Diego Maradona

8. “I’m alive and I want to keep living.”

— Diego Maradona

9. “Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he’s in a shampoo commercial.”

— Diego Maradona

10. “Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.”

— Diego Maradona

11. “I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius.”

— Diego Maradona

12. “To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.”

— Diego Maradona

13. “The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.”

— Diego Maradona

14. “I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.”

— Diego Maradona

15. “God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the field. I feel I would be betraying Him if I didn’t.”

— Diego Maradona

16. “Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.”

— Diego Maradona

17. “If you don’t want to play clean football then go up into the stands.”

— Diego Maradona

18. “Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.”

— Diego Maradona

19. “What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I’m used to fat and hairy women journalists.”

— Diego Maradona

20. “Everybody in Argentina can remember the hand of God in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the hand of God has brought us an Argentinian pope.”

— Diego Maradona

21. “I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.”

— Diego Maradona

22. “When God decides its time, I guess he’ll come for us.”

— Diego Maradona

23. “You were only a goalkeeper.”

— Diego Maradona

24. “My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.”

— Diego Maradona

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

— Diego Maradona

26. “Pele should go back to the museum.”

— Diego Maradona

27. “When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.”

— Diego Maradona

28. “Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them “I want to go to Buenos Aires” and they say “No, Carlitos, stay here now, we’ll give you more money”. And then he gets more money!”

— Diego Maradona

29. “At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It’s difficult to explain.”

— Diego Maradona

30. “The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.”

— Diego Maradona

31. “Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.”

— Diego Maradona

32. “I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.”

— Diego Maradona

33. “The Manchester Derby is bigger and more important than El Classico.”

— Diego Maradona

34. “He’s a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.”

— Diego Maradona

35. “All the people that criticised me should eat their words.”

— Diego Maradona

36. “If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.”

— Diego Maradona

37. “Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.”

— Diego Maradona

38. “While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team’s victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.”

— Diego Maradona

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

— Diego Maradona

40. “I’d give my life to be the national team coach.”

— Diego Maradona

41. “I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.”

— Diego Maradona

42. “I’m not desperate but I know that some day I’ll be the coach again of some team.”

— Diego Maradona

43. “I’ll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.”

— Diego Maradona

44. “People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn’t see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There’s always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people’s vote.”

— Diego Maradona

45. “It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.”

— Diego Maradona

46. “I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.”

— Diego Maradona