association football

🇦🇷Lionel Messi

Sports

b. 1987

"Here he is again ... here he is again .. that's astonishing, absolutely world-class!"

🇬🇧Steven Gerrard

association football

b. 1980

"“He’ll absolutely be remembered as one of the greats; for me, he is already one of them. There are so many things . He is so inspirational. In the key moments he has that difference – a spark that is difficult to define."

Johan Cruyff

Philosophy

1947–2016

"In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender."

🇫🇷Arsène Wenger

association football

b. 1949

"In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering."

🇬🇧David Beckham

Politics

b. 1975

"I have a camera up my backside almost 24 hours a day."

🇦🇷Diego Maradona

Sports

1960–2020

"The unconventional and uninhibited way of living was a part of my life. I won't be like that now."

🇩🇪Jürgen Klopp

Sports

b. 1967

"For me, football is the only thing more inspiring than the cinema. You wake up in the morning, and the magic was all real."

🇮🇹Gianluigi Buffon

Sports

b. 1978

"In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018."

🇬🇧Alex Ferguson

Medicine

b. 1941

"Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way."

🇬🇧Bobby Robson

Sports

1933–2009

"Manchester United dropped points, Liverpool dropped points, Chelsea dropped points, Everton dropped points, so in a way we haven't lost anything at all really, although we dropped all three."