“I made mistakes and I paid for them, but the ball is never stained.”

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

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

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on end.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning…

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.