David Villa Quotes

Lionel Messi is on a different planet to anyone.

Everybody has the clarity of telling I haven't seen a player like Lionel Messi, and I am fortunate for training and seeing him every day at the training field. And even sometimes he surprises you with some good performances. There is not comparison with other players I have seen along my life. He is unique.

Messi is the number one. No other player is close to him.

Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.

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.

Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

Lionel Messi is the best player ever.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

Messi deserves to win this World Cup for all he has done for football.

Messi's start to 2015 has been unrivalled. His efficiency in front of goal and the amount of goals he has scored cannot be bettered.

There is only one Messi. No matter what I say, it's too little. You have to shower him with superlatives.

Messi and Ronaldo are certainly the best in the world. They are both unbelievable. I am very happy to be a contemporary of these geniuses.

Messi is just an anomaly: he can dribble, he can score, he can pass, he has the vision, he understands the game.

In truth, there is nobody who will be able to play like Zidane.

Of course Cristiano - what he has done over the last 15 years in football - is probably one of the best players ever in the history of football, so no comparison to him.

Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all-time, I don't think there is any debate about that. If you look at the records he holds, they'll never be broken or touched. He wasn't the biggest, wasn't the fastest, and didn't have the hardest shot, but no one saw the game developing the way he saw the game develop.

There are people you can say you have seen play, such as Pele or Maradona. But Messi is unique, out on his own, and is going to make history. I can say I saw Messi play.

The world's best when I was growing up was Pele and he would have been a great player now, too, but Messi surpasses him.

In top form, Messi is the best footballer I have ever seen - period.

How marvellous it is to enjoy Messi. No one can touch his numbers, and it is impossible for anyone to do what he has done apart from him.

Messi has a divine gift.

In what transcends this world, the best is Messi because he is incredible: he does things that nobody can do.

With Messi, we're talking about the best player in the world. It doesn't matter if he's a little bit injured: he can still change everything.

Kylian is able to do extraordinary things. Look at his stats. He is efficient.