Diego Maradona

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks.

To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.

I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.

Beckham is a nice man and I'm sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.

I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.