"It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success."
-- Lionel Messi"The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your instinct."
-- Lionel Messi"I like to analyze games. I like to be involved in football."
-- Lionel Messi"I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football."
-- Lionel Messi"I never set out to be the best player in history."
-- Lionel Messi"Every time I start a year, I start with the objective of trying to achieve everything."
-- Lionel Messi"When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team."
-- Lionel Messi"The goal is to keep improving and not think that there is anything impossible."
-- Lionel Messi"You can learn from the bad times."
-- Lionel Messi"I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else."
-- Lionel Messi"I am the same person I have always been."
-- Lionel Messi"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."
-- Lionel Messi"Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won."
-- Lionel Messi"You can only overcome so much if you don't love the thing that you're doing."
-- Lionel Messi"What I do is play football, which is what I like."
-- Lionel Messi"The day you think there are no improvements to be made is a sad one."
-- Lionel Messi"I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world."
-- Lionel Messi"The truth is that I don't like being compared to anybody."
-- Lionel Messi"There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy child smile."
-- Lionel Messi"Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time."
-- Lionel Messi"You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen."
-- Lionel Messi"I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at the moment. Instinct. That's what has always led me most of the time."
-- Lionel Messi"The best thing is to look ahead and move forward."
-- Lionel Messi"The important thing is to have respect for your teammates."
-- Lionel Messi
