Diego Maradona the legendary football player and manager from Argentina dies aged 60. He was widely and popularly recognised as the greatest footballer of all time. Here are 15 best quotes from this legend to inspire you to follow your dreams.

His untimely demise has saddened us all, this journey called life is short so we should make good use of the time we’ve currently got.

1. ‘My mother thinks I am the best and I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me’
2. ‘When you win, you don’t get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far’
3. ‘To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world’
4. ‘You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don’t take risks’
5. ‘I am black or white, I’ll never be grey in my life’
6. ‘All the people who criticised me should eat their words’
7. I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody’
8. ‘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’
9. ‘I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius’
10. ‘I’d give my life to be the national team coach’
11. ‘If you don’t want to play clean football then go up into the stands’
12. ‘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’
13. ‘When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end’
14. ‘When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success’
15. When God decides it time, I guess he’ll come for us’

Hope these best 15 quotes from this all time legend, Diego Maradona will inspire you to stop doubting yourself and go for what makes you happy.

Life is too short. Ditch the negativity, ignore the distractions and focus on crafting your story because that’s what people will remember us when we’re gone.

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