Maradona after Argentina qualified for the finals in South Africa, after looking like they would not make it….
“To those who did not believe: now suck my d**k – I’m sorry ladies for my words – and keep on sucking it. I am either white or black. I will never be grey in my life. You treated me as you did. Now keep on sucking d**ks. I am grateful to my players and to the Argentinian people. I thank no one but them. The rest, keep on sucking d**ks.”
On watching former club Boca Juniors…
“I feel like my chest burns. It’s like sleeping with Julia Roberts.”
On playing for Argentina…
“When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.”
On beating England in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final and THAT goal…
“It was the hand of God.”
Diego Maradona on smashing the car of a photographer…
“I did it with the hand of reason.”
On who was a better player between him and Pele…
“My mother says it was me and Pele’s mother says it w
“Maradona is our maximum term of reference. No one embodies our essence better. No one bears our emblem more nobly. To no other, in the last twenty years, have we offered up so much passion. Argentina is Maradona, Maradona is Argentina.”
-- Argentine psychologist Gustavo Bernstein
