71 Best Lionel Messi Quotes & Wallpaper

Lionel Messi Quotes are bubbling with inspiration and insight!

His quotes are as great as he himself is!

Widely regarded as the G.O.A.T. ( greatest of all time) and his latest sensational win at the FIFA World Cup 2022 just reinforced the stance of his fans.

People go as far as praising him and believing him to be the best in the world, an alien and even Arda Turan said, “I have never seen anything like Leo Messi. He is a miracle from God!”

I’m pretty sure he needs no introduction at all.

Nevertheless, I insist you should and must read about his success principles from the link below.

• “Young Messi Challenges & His 5 Champion Principles.”

Without further ado, let’s straight jump to his quotes.

Lionel Messi Quotes

Lionel Messi Quotes

Quotes Messi

Lionel Messi Quotes On Success

1- “What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.”

2- “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

3- “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.”

4- “I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.”

5- “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 Quotes

6- “I think my desire to always get better, [is a trait that accounts for my success], to always want more, to always be my top critic, and accepting the good and the bad.”

7- “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. But that trait is not something I’ve worked on, it’s part of me.”

8- “You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.”

9- “I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.”

10- “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.”

Lionel Messi Quotes About Life

11- “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

12- “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

13- “There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”

14- “I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.”

15- “Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me “to enjoy and play as you know”, and that’s stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I’ve been given.”

Lionel Messi Quotes

16- “This is why I didn’t go out to parties and many other things. I am successful because I made sacrifices for success.”

17- “I like to score goals but I also like to have friends among the people I have played with.”

18- “I am a normal person. I have the same life as any human being. When I finish playing, doing my work, I have my family, my friends, and I live like any other person.”

19- “I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training.”

20- “There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.”

Lionel Messi Quotes

21- “I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.”

22- “On a personal note, I think it won’t be until after I’ve retired that I’m fully aware of what I’ve done or what I’ve gone on to achieve in my career.”

23- “I know how important it is to have a helping hand.”

24- “Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.”

25- “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.”

Lionel Messi Quotes

26- “My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.”

27- “Little by little, I’m getting better all the time. I’ve not lost the passion to play.”

28- “Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.”

29- “It’s not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.”

30- “Just to hear people saying and thinking that makes me very proud indeed. But I try not to think about it too much.”

Lionel Messi Quotes

31- “I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we’ve lost. I’m in a bad way. I don’t like to talk to anyone.”

32- “I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.”

Lionel Messi Quotes World Cup

33- “You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.”

34- “We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.”

35- “In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.”

Lionel Messi Quotes

36- “Money is not a motivating factor…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.”

37- “When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.”

38- “Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.”

39- “Like I’ve said many times before, I’m always more likely to remember goals for their importance rather than if they’re beautiful or not. Goals scored in finals, for example.”

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Lionel Messi Quotes Overnight Success

40- “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.”

Quotes Messi

41- “I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona – I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.”

“The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct.”

42- “From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.”

43- “If I hadn’t had support, I wouldn’t have been able to fulfill my dreams.”

Lionel Messi Quotes Wallpaper

44- “Being a bit famous now gives me the opportunity to help people who really need it, especially children.”

45- “Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.”

Quotes Messi

46- “I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.”

47- “My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way.”

48- “The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn’t know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.”

49- “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 Quotes And Sayings

50- “When the year starts, the objective is to win with all the team, personal records are secondary.”

51- “The only thing that matters is playing. I have enjoyed it since I was a little boy, and I still try to do that every time I go out on to a pitch. I always say that when I no longer enjoy it or it’s no longer fun to do it, then I won’t do it anymore. I do it because I love it and that’s all I care about.”

52- “It takes sacrifice as well as talent.”

53- “I’ve always really just liked football, and I’ve always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can’t.”

54- “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.”

55- “I’ve never stopped being Argentine, and I’ve never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I’ve been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change.”

Lionel Messi Quotes

56- “It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I’m said to have been involved even if I’ve had nothing to do with it. That’s why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.”

Lionel Messi Quotes In Spanish

57- “Estoy feliz con un balón en los pies. Mi motivación viene de jugar el juego que amo.”

58- “El día en que parezca que no hay mejoras por hacer será un día muy triste para cualquier jugador.”

59- “Aún tengo mucho espacio para mejorar. Por ejemplo, quiero patear igual con ambos pies.”

60- “Me gusta meter goles, pero también tener amigos entre la gente con la que he jugado.”

Quotes Messi

61- “Me divierto cómo un niño en la calle. El día que no disfrute en el campo, voy a dejar el fútbol.”

Lionel Messi Love Quotes

62- “You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough.”

63- “You have got to love the game.”

64- “I’m happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love.”

Messi Inspirational Quotes

65- “A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.”

66- “Whether it’s a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game – I play the same. I’m always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.”

67- “Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.”

68- “It’s scoring goals that’s great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.”

69- “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.”

Messi Sad Quotes

70- “Sometimes you have to accept you can’t win all the time.”

71- “The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.”

Conclusion

Lionel Messi Quotes will sweep you off your feet! They are simply good and reflect Messi, of course.

Quotes Messi encompassed his opinions and thoughts on life, success, football, the world cup, love, and sadness.

Messi is an inspiration in and out.

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