God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.

Beckham is a nice man and I'm sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.

Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope.

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

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

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.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.

Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.

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

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.

There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

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

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

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.

You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks.

I was I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.