Best Lionel Messi Quotes
Lionel Messi Quotes About Life, Love, Success, Motivational & Soccer! Lionel Messi, a professional footballer from Argentina, is one of the best players in the game’s history on the world stage. As the first player in history to win Seven FIFA Ballons d’Or, he also became the first player to win five European Golden Shoes. In addition, his gambling career has seen him smash various records, including the most goals scored in a season in the league (50), a calendar year (91), a season (73), and a Champions League match (five), and many more.
Leo Messi was born into a football-loving family in critical Argentina. At a young age, his a passion for the sport and spent most of his early years playing soccer with his brothers. In the beginning, he played for Newell’s old Boys’ youth team when he was a young boy.
When he was 13, he started playing for FC Barcelona’s youth team. Messi made his professional debut as a 17-year-old. He quickly became an essential player for the Barcelona team, though. During the 2008–09 season, he helped Barcelona become the first team in Spanish soccer to win three straight titles. Over the next few years, he became Barcelona’s all-time top scorer in major competitions.
When Messi formed the Leo Messi Foundation in 2007, it was to help underprivileged youngsters get an education and medical treatment. The foundation’s purpose is to increase money to send sick children to Spain for treatment, including transportation, hospitalization, and a period of rehabilitation. In addition to Messi’s efforts, Herbalife has contributed a small amount of money to the cause.
Best Lionel Messi Quotes
1. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”-Lionel Messi
2. “You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough.”-Lionel Messi
3. “If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer, I would willingly play for nothing.”-Lionel Messi
4. The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct.”-Lionel Messi
5. “Money is not a motivating factor… My motivation comes from playing the game I love.”-Lionel Messi
6. “The objective is to win with all the team, personal records are secondary.”-Lionel Messi
7. “Being a bit famous now gives me the opportunity to help people who really need it, especially children.”-Lionel Messi
8. “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.”-Lionel Messi
9. “I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona – I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.”-Lionel Messi
10. “Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.”-Lionel Messi
11. “Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible.”-Lionel Messi
12. “My ambition is always to get better and better.”-Lionel Messi
13. “Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.”-Lionel Messi
14. “I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training.”-Lionel Messi
15. “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
16. “What I do is play football, which is what I like.”-Lionel Messi
17. “Little by little, I’m getting better all the time. I’ve not lost the passion to play.”-Lionel Messi
18. “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.”-Lionel Messi
19. “I’m always proudest whenever I’ve been part of a trophy-winning team. Lifting a title makes me feel so happy because it’s what I want to do in football: be successful.”-Lionel Messi
20. “This is why I didn’t go out to parties and many other things. I am successful because I made sacrifices for success.”-Lionel Messi
21. “At Barca, we trained every day with the ball.”-Lionel Messi
22. “For my part, I try to do my bit to make people’s lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.”-Lionel Messi
23. “Barcelona is my life, they have brought me to where I am today, I could not leave, I don’t want to leave. My heart stays with Barcelona.”-Lionel Messi
24. “I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world”-Lionel Messi
25. “I think my desire to always get better, to always want more, to always be my top critic, and accepting the good and the bad.”-Lionel Messi
26. “You can overcome anything, if and if only you love something enough.”-Lionel Messi
27. “I will never go to trial against Barça because it is the club that I love, which has given me everything since I arrived here. It’s the club of my life, I made my life here.”-Lionel Messi
28. “I’ve always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They’ve been very close to me and we have a great relationship.”-Lionel Messi
29. “There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”-Lionel Messi
30. “I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.”-Lionel Messi
