Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona is an Argentine former football player. He played in four World Cups and received the FIFA award for best footballer of the 20th century

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• It was the hand of God!
  • World Cup '86, about hand goal made against England.
• Yes, I was the best.
  • 1999, about Internet election "The Best Football Player of the Century" beating Pelé.
• The ball does not stain.
  • Reffering to his personal life.
• We just rub each other the wrong way.
  • Speaking on his relationship with Pelé
• They have cut my legs off.
  • After being suspended in 1994 FIFA World Cup
• I swear it on the Dalma and the Gianina
  • His daughters. Almost a hallmark catch-phrase.
• Having made that goal with the hand was like stealing their wallet after the Malvinas (Falklands) conflict.
• I have played the Barcelona-Real Madrid, but it's nothing like the Boca-River. I feel like my chest burns. It's like sleeping with Julia Roberts.
  • Before a match between Boca Juniors and River Plate in 2006.
• At the time I called it the Hand of God. Bollocks was is it the hand of God, it was the hand of Diego and it felt like pickpocketing the English.
• "They can order me to pay him money but they can never order me to love him"
  • When the courts ordered Maradona to pay his son money. Maradona has always considered his son as the biggest mistake of his life.
• "They can suck it and keep on sucking it."
  • Maradona on the Argentine journalists who criticsed him after his Argentina team qualified for the 2010 World Cup Finals
• "You too Pasman, you have the dick up your arse too"
  • Maradona on one Argentine journalist