You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can. Lionel Messi More Quotes by Lionel Messi More Quotes From Lionel Messi You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it. Lionel Messi hard-work dream soccer The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct. Lionel Messi instinct decision mind You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough Lionel Messi ifs-and enough overcoming 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 feet football sports What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. Lionel Messi play football soccer 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 motivation games football 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. Lionel Messi sacrifice dream football Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time. Lionel Messi accepting winning sometimes The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. Lionel Messi player football sports My ambition is always to get better and better. Lionel Messi my-ambition get-better ambition 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 football sports thinking In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. Lionel Messi motivational-sports football mean 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 team player football FROM THE FIRST DAY YOU ARE TOLD IF YOU WANT TO BE THE BEST THEN STAY OUT THE NIGHTCLUBS! Lionel Messi being-the-best want firsts My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age. Lionel Messi home memories years When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success. Lionel Messi badass beats years Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win. Lionel Messi football soccer sports Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I've ever seen. He was so fast he could score from nothing and could shoot the ball better than anyone I've ever seen. Lionel Messi zidane player hero 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. Lionel Messi example goal beautiful I have changed nothing, my style of play is still that of a child. I know that above all it is my job and that I should approach it in another way, but one must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. It is imperative one plays to amuse oneself, to be happy. That is what children do and I do the same thing. Lionel Messi jobs football children
