You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.
You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough
Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.
I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.
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.
I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world
My ambition is always to get better and better.
The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.
My motivation comes from playing the game I love.
When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
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.
Goals are only important if they win games
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
It takes sacrifice as well as talent.
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.
Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
NO MATTER WHAT YOU ACHIEVE, EVERY SEASON IS A NEW SEASON. WHAT YOU ACHIEVED THE SEASON BEFORE IS NO LONGER RELEVANT.
