Top 60 Lionel Messi Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

— Lionel Messi

2. “A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of a sheep.”

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3. “You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough.”

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4. “The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your Instinct.”

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5. “I don’t need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I’ll show you what I can do.”

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6. “When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”

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7. “My ambition is always to get better and better.”

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8. “Goals are only important if they win games.”

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9. “Sometimes you have to accept you can’t win all the time.”

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10. “I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.”

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11. “Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.”

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12. “It takes sacrifice as well as talent.”

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13. “There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”

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14. “There’s no doubt. Its certain that ill be 100 percent.”

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15. “You have got to love the game.”

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16. “There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.”

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19. “From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.”

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

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21. “What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.”

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22. “I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training.”

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23. “I always thought about carrying on training and working, chasing my dream.”

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24. “We know that we are close to making history.”

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25. “The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.”

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26. “My motivation comes from playing the game I love.”

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27. “I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don’t think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.”

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30. “I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn’t had support, I wouldn’t have been able to fulfill my dreams.”

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31. “Fatherhood changes you completely. If things didn’t go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn’t want to see or listen to anyone. Now, when I arrive home, I see my son and everything is OK. He’s the most important thing to me now.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “Barcelona is my life. They have brought me to where I am today. I could not leave, I don’t want to leave. I know the Premier League is very good. But I cannot see myself playing in England because my heart is with Barcelona, always.”

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34. “At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way.”

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37. “Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.”

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38. “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.”

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

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40. “One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.”

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41. “The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player.”

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42. “Barcelona is my home and I hope that I stay here for many years.”

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

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44. “You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.”

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

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46. “Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I’ve ever seen. He was so fast he could score from nothing and could shoot the ball better than anyone I’ve ever seen.”

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47. “I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.”

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48. “I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.”

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49. “My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.”

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50. “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

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