Mario Kempes

“I am lucky because I can feel at home anywhere, I don't get homesick.”

“People are saying: 'the Argentina uniform should not be stained.' Forget about it. The Argentina uniform is already pretty stained.”

“On the field Icardi always does a good job, what he does off it, I don't care at all. What I do care is what he does for my team on the pitch.”

“Suarez and Neymar play the way they play because of him. They are great players but they are made greater by Messi.”

“Argentina is a powerhouse in soccer.”

“Every time Maradona speaks it makes life difficult for everyone and there are those of us who don't agree with that, not when he talks about football, but rather about people.”

“Missing the 1978 World Cup made Maradona an even better player, as he showed on the following year at the Youth World Cup, and he never looked back.”

“It's not easy to carry forward the national team because you have a whole country behind you. But I would be willing to take charge of the Argentina national team.”

“They say Maradona is God, but there's only one God!”

“Messi owes something to Argentina. He knows that.”

“Maradona is Maradona, that's indisputable, but he doesn't play anymore. He stopped playing a long time ago.”

“Maradona was absolutely the best player I ever played with.”

“Machines can break down under pressure. But so can humans.”

“I remember listening to my first World Cup in 1966. I was with my parents, helping them build our house and listening to it on the radio. We still didn't have a TV back then, but fortunately the first time I listened to a World Cup Jose Maria Munoz was commentating, and he's one of the best there is.”

“I couldn't be bothered with the whole shaving-every-couple-of-days routine.”

“Sometimes it is not bad to be scared.”

“In one game I'd have defenders completely wiping me out, but three days later I'd have my chance to get revenge. What had happened a few days earlier would never affect my confidence.”

“I don't score many with my head but, as it happened, that's how I netted my first-ever World Cup goal.”

“Maradona doesn't play soccer anymore, he coaches it. He needs to remember that.”

“You can only succeed by playing in the way which comes naturally to you.”