Maradona's 100 Best Phrases

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Anthony Golden

The phrases by Diego Armando Maradona (1960-2020), are part of the legacy left by one of the stars of the ball. A clear, temperamental and open person, the 'Fluff' was always involved in controversy for, as he himself would say, "having been either black or white, never gray".

From the sporting point of view we are talking about a world champion (1986) idolized in his native Argentina and in Naples, his second home and where he gave off his best years of football, winning the Seria A, the Cup and the Italian Super Cup..

He served as captain and coach of the albiceleste, although he was not successful in his international appearances. He recently died of a cardiorespiratory arrest derived from complications from his addictions to alcohol, medications and drugs..

You may also be interested in these phrases of great soccer players.

1- "It was the hand of God".

2- "The fight is my fuel".

3- "Whatever happens and whoever directs, the shirt number 10 will always be mine".

4- "I was wrong and paid, but the ball is not stained".

5- "Many football leaders shitted themselves in this football temple that is La Bombonera".

6- “I grew up in a private neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Deprived of electricity, water, telephone ... "

7- “In the clinic there is one who thinks he is Napoleon and another Robinson Crusoe. And they don't think I'm Maradona! ".

8- “If I die, I want to be born again and I want to be a footballer. And I want to be Diego Armando Maradona again. I am a player who has given people joy and that is enough for me and I have plenty of it ".

9- "I don't want to dramatize, but believe me they cut off my legs".

10- “Pele there was only one. The rest of us come in the second line ".

11- “My dreams are two. My first dream is to play in the World Cup. And the second is to be champion of the eighth and what remains in the championship this ".

12- "Passarella has to understand that the history of Argentine football was written with long hair".

13- "If I train every day, I tear myself up to the shoulder".

14- "Arriving at the area and not being able to kick the bow is like dancing with your sister".

15- "Playing without an audience is playing inside a cemetery".

16- "I could have been a worse footballer than Pelé".

17- “I have played for Barcelona-Real Madrid, but Boca-River is different. It's like my chest swells. It's like sleeping with Julia Roberts ".

18- "Jorge Valdano has more lies than the trick".

19- "In Cuba I am more alone than Kung Fú".

20- "They can make me pay you, but you can't make me love you".

21- "There is no black that does not fade ..."

22- “At first the drug makes you euphoric. It is like winning a championship. And you think: what does it matter tomorrow, if today I won the championship?.

23- “It was a nice goal, but not a marvel. Raquel Welch is a marvel, not a goal ”.

24- "I already beat Pele, now that I return to the museum".

25- “Today I am not talking guys. I have fewer words than a telegram ".

26- “This is not a farewell match. It is a tribute match. I'm never going to leave football ".

27- “To those who didn't believe in this team, with the ladies' forgiveness, let them suck it up. That they keep sucking it ".

28- “We heard pim, pam, stick noise, crossbar. Goyco was going from one place to another. In my life I suffered so much on a soccer field ".

29- "The Selection is a Rolls Royce full of dirt, you have to clean it".

30- "I want to be the idol of the poor children of Naples, because they are like I was in Buenos Aires".

31- "Grondona's turtle escaped".

32- “It seemed a lie to have a piece of history so close. He is a seducer and uses everything to envelop you. They say that he started with twelve men and three rifles in the Sierra Maestra and now I realize why he won: he has an iron conviction. Fidel Castro is a personality impossible to forget ".

33- "Bilardo is little man".

34- "I am either black or white, I will not be gray in my life".

35- "History says so, Argentina always up and Colombia always down".

36- "The leaders of Boca are more false than a celestial dollar".

37- "I wanted to go to the United States, but Clinton's thermos head won't let me in".

38- "When I entered the Vatican and saw all that gold I became a ball of fire".

39- "Pelé debuted with a kid".

40- “I like to hit people when they have both hands up. When she's down, I like to help her ".

41- "The Neapolitans know who to support".

42- "Seeing Leo Messi play is better than sex".

43- "Cristiano Ronaldo scores a goal and sells you a shampoo".

44- “The most beautiful of my trophies? The last, since it is the most recent ".

45- "I am proud to have been the best in Naples".

46- “I love Scotland. It is a country where blood is not executed very well with England ".

47- "I swear by my children that I have never taken drugs".

48- “Although Beckham has always been very busy with his Spice Girl, sometimes he found time to play football very well. However, he owes something to his national team ".

49- "If you are empty, fill yourself".

50- "If I hadn't done the bad things I did in my life, Pelé wouldn't be a second".

51- "I had proposed to score two goals against Gatti, but now that he told me chubby I'm going to score four".

52- "I was born in Lanús, brother".

53- "The other day I played soccer for a while and I realized that I have fewer legs than a passport photo".

54- “If to be a team coach you have to lobby and talk to journalists like Niembro, I'll quit. I resign from the position ".

55- “I'm getting tired, every day I get more saturated, I can't take it anymore. I want to start football. I fulfill the contract with Boca and I leave football for a while ".

56- “Havelange played water polo; so he can't talk about football ".

57- “I'm not afraid that my crown will fall off. By being here, I show that I am from the house ".

58- “The pass to Boca was invented by me. The guy put it all together. The truth is that Boca did not have a soup to pay me ".

59- "River directors are like their players, the only thing they know how to do is scratch".

60- "Nobody imposes a player on me".

61- "In the West, Ferro rules".

62- "Three years here in Naples have given me a lot, but they have also been taken away".

63- "I run, I make an effort, but above all the dialogue with the ball".

64- Is there a Maradona female? Yes, Ornella Muti ".

65.- “For my mother I would be willing to kill or abandon football. She is my greatest love ".

66- “My secret dream? Meet the Princess of Monaco ".

67- "I would rather be an orphan than be a member of FIFA".

68- "In our time, if one looked at a partner's wife, in the dressing room they would alternate to punch him".

69- “Neymar better than Messi? Pelé took the wrong pill ".

70- "As a drug dealer, I shit with hunger".

71- "The rhinoscopy, the short hair ... One day the boys of the National Team are going to scratch an egg and Passarella is going to have them cut".

72- "Boca has less definition than the television we had in Fiorito".

73- “I told Toresani on the field that I live in Segurola and Habana 4310, seventh floor. And let's see if it lasts thirty seconds ".

74- "If I want to hit you I'll spoil you".

75- “I take an advantage from politicians. They are public, I am popular ".

76- "Don't touch me, brother ... look, I've been concentrating for eight days and I haven't seen a woman ... You touched me again!".

77- "Beating River is like your mother waking you up with a kiss in the morning".

78- “Maradona's doping is like PRODE: positive, negative, positive, positive. I even think there is a tie ".

79- "I'm going to tell you a secret Shilton: it was with my hand".

80- “Without Claudia, today I would be in the jonca. The drug kills you. It annihilates you ".

81- "I want to celebrate because it is six years since I do not use drugs".

82- "Dalma and Gianinna are my eyes".

83- "The only thing missing is for a plantamandioch like Chilavert to tell us Argentines what we have to do".

84- "El" Negro "Enrique is heavier than a necklace of televisions".

85- "Grondona lied to me, Bilardo betrayed me".

86- “So far I have lived forty years but they are worth seventy. Everything really happened to me. All of a sudden I left Fiorito and went to the top of the universe and there I had to manage by myself ".

87- "I dyed a bit blonde, in repudiation of the short-haired guys".

88- "In my fucking life I thought I was going to be in Cuba playing golf".

89- "For me he is a great boy, but I think I was the best".

90- “Are you going to tell me what Juan Simón is like? I've known him for ten years. He is able to drink the cat's milk ".

91- "Batista is not known even in Uruguay".

92- "I thought Berlusconi was coming and I met the cartonero Báez".

93- “Judge Bernasconi is very fast. Able to put a suppository into a running hare ".

94- "If I see Duhalde in the desert, I throw him an anchovy".

95- “Against homosexuals? No way. It is better that they exist because that way they leave more women free for those of us who are really macho ".

96- “Pelé is a slave. He sold his heart to FIFA ".

97- “My legitimate daughters are Dalma and Gianina. The other children are of money or of mistake ".

98- "Sometimes the lows catch me, but I put on El Chavo and everything passes me".

99- "It's like a punch from Muhammad Ali, I don't have the strength for anything".

100- “” Messi sometimes plays for Messi. He still forgets his companions. Many times he becomes 'Deportivo Messi' because he plays for him ".

101- "If they condemn me, take me dulce de leche".

102- "Carrascosa is a great guy, he is more upright than General Paz".

103- "When I see the second goal for the English again, it seems a lie to me".

104- “Coppola is very lively. Smoke under water ".

105- "Do you know what player I would have been if I hadn't drugged myself?".

106- "For me going to a World Cup is the same as for a boy going to Disney".

107- "My mother considered me the best in the world, so if she says it, it will be true".

108- “I knew being poor and it is bad and difficult. I do not recommend it to anyone. You want to have a lot of things and we have to settle for just dreaming about them ".

109- "Sport is the gear of a huge machine of economic, political, industrial and image interests".

110- "Do you believe in the trio Messi, me and Ché Guevara?".

111- "My Napoli made four of this Juve".

112- "Bernardo Neustadt is called a crumb sandwich: it is always next to the cake".

113- "We called Tocalli a dirt road, because he has no hands".

114- "Verón in the national team has more fouls than Gianinna in school".

115- “I hold everything I said, let it be filled if it is empty. Fight with Maradona, not with the 70 percent of the country that belongs to Boca ".

116- “The same thing always happens in this country. It is the same game that is played forty thousand times delayed ".

117- “Look, they have given me nicknames, but 'Pelusa' is the one that suits me the most because it brings me back to childhood in Fiorito. I remember the Cebollitas, the cane arches, when we only played for Coca and the sandwich. That was purer ".

118- "If the country does not reach the opposite goal, we have to make changes, even to the President".

119- “Blatter loves me like a son. Yeah ... like a son of a bitch ".


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