God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the field. I feel I would be betraying Him if I didn't.

When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.

Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

I've seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentinian football and his name is Messi... He's a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football.

I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'

Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God.

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world

The Lord helps those who help themselves.

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.

I become a horn to be heard over whistles.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

It's hard to want to let somebody into your house.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

You have to keep moving forward

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.