Lionel Messi quotes

I start early, and I stay late, day after day after day.
- Lionel Messi

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.
- Lionel Messi

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.
- Lionel Messi

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
- Lionel Messi

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
- Lionel Messi

My ambition is always to get better and better.
- Lionel Messi

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

It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
- Lionel Messi

You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough.
- Lionel Messi

What I do is play football, which is what I like.
- Lionel Messi

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.
- Lionel Messi

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

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
- Lionel Messi

I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training.
- Lionel Messi

I don’t consider myself the greatest player in Barcelona’s history. Because I know it’s Ronaldinho. I still remember that he was the one who assisted my first ever Barcelona goal. He wasn’t simply passing the ball, he was passing the torch to me.
- Lionel Messi

Goals are only important if they win games.
- Lionel Messi

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.
- Lionel Messi

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

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. 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.
- Lionel Messi

Sometimes you have to accept you can’t win all the time.
- Lionel Messi

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision.
- Lionel Messi

The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct.
- Lionel Messi

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

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

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

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.
- Lionel Messi

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at the moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
- Lionel Messi