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Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it's not like that. There are things which are only in my heart-that no one knows. At last I have decided to tell everything." Diego Maradona
No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history.
I'd have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals - free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League.
Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports.
Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.
Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.
Ronaldinho was a trickster, an artist with the ball. Leo represents the essence of the game: speed plus skill.
My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.
George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.
Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.
Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele ... Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar.
You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.
There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
Diego (Maradona) has filled us with emotions. But between the cracks, without doubt, Messi is better than Maradona.
I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius.
Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
Ronaldo has been compared to the incomparable George Best
As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona.
Ronaldinho did things that I've never seen anyone do.
Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.
The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle.
It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.
Peter Crouch, the Marmite of football.
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 is awesome.
I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.
I can't think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.
My heroes were always soccer players.
People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.
What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.
The guy is the greatest male athletes of all time.
Gabriel Batistuta. He was a spectacular No 9 - great at finding space, shooting from outside the box, good in the air. He was always a reference for me and I used to watch the way he played.
Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.
When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.
I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates.
Nelson Mandela is my hero outside of football. I was fortunate enough to meet him a couple of times. He was really clued up on his football and he knew me, so that was just unbelievable. It really stuck with me.
There is only one player who is doing things that I could never do - and that is Messi.
We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it
Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.
Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.
In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.
Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.
I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.
What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?
If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.
The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.
Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet.
At a training session Neymar dribbled around seven opponents before he scored. It was the senior squad's offence against the senior squad's defence so we are talking about skilled players here. The goal was better than his goal that was chosen as the best in the world.
Great players inspire you. The best player I played with was Gervi (Gervinho)
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.
AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.
Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with.
Ronaldinho was virtually unstoppable at his best, as a forward or a playmaker.
He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.
I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.
And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best.
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.
Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol
I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.
Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game
Iniesta - he is the Zinedine Zidane of the team, because he can do whatever you want him to with the ball.
Don Alfredo, greatest legend of Real Madrid, always with us. I will always remember maestro.
Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times
Alan Smith ... very much a striker, by reputation ... and by fact
Ronaldo is a unique player for all of his talent and his professionalism. He is a player who is extraordinarily consistent.
Like Zidane I want to inspire the kids
He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.
The ageless Teddy Sheringham, 37 now ...
The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.
To me, Paul Scholes was in a class of his own.
Messi is the Mozart of football.
If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.
For me, Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It's a pleasure to put myself against him and when I finish my career it's something I can look back on and know I've tested myself against the very best.
Regular readers will know I'm a fan of (Cristiano) Ronaldo, and an even bigger fan of the man who's assumed his mantle with quite astonishing success, Wayne Rooney. But Messi is on a higher plain than even that pair.
It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.
Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.
And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name
Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unlike these people were modern politicians, who thought only of power and tricks.
Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.
For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world ... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.
Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.
Bryan Robson, well, he does what he does and his future is in the future
Ulick Norman Owen - Una Nancy Owen - each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!
For me, Paul Scholes is on the same level as Ronaldo. The real Ronaldo, not Cristiano. I always thought he was a great player but after I played alongside him I realised he was Manchester United's greatest player of all time. He did his talking on the pitch which I respected most.
Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Living or dead, Roberto would always be the only man for me.
I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.
People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn't see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There's always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people's vote.
The greatest player in the world. He's got a fantastic vision of the game, and what he can do technically - it's crazy.