Roberto Carlos Quotes

I am not crazy enough to compare myself with Messi because he is the best there ever was and the best there will ever be.

Maradona, I think, is not a football player but he's something different. He was unbelievable.

I can't be compared to Pele. I need to do so much more to be compared to Pele. Pele is fantastic. And he's unique.

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.

There's absolutely no comparisons to me or anyone else to Willie Mays. Willie Mays, he's the greatest baseball player of all time.

I respect his decisions, but football without Messi is not football. It is very hard to imagine football without him.

You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him.

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

I think nobody has the right to talk about Sachin Tendulkar's game. It's just a phenomenon.

I never saw Pele, but I watched Maradona, for seven years I saw every game. He's not one of the best, he's the best.

Messi's career is a cinema script.

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.

I think in terms of best players, I would have to say Ronaldo, the real Ronaldo, the Brazilian one. I was fortunate enough to have a year with him at Real Madrid. He was at the end of his career and was probably half the player he was. But, in his prime, he was quite simply astonishing.

Messi is the best. I have not seen or will ever see a player like Lionel Messi.

It's impossible to describe Messi. I like him so much, and I always say I feel so sad because he never won the World Cup with Argentina. It is an award he deserves because a world-class player like him must be a world champion.

There is only one Kishore Kumar, he was exceptional. No one can ever be like him.

I was lucky to see Di Stefano, on the pitch, in person. He was a winner, as is Raul.

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.

Xavi is one of the best players in the history of football.

Thierry Henry, without a doubt - he's an absolute legend.

Cristiano is one of the best players of all-time - there's no doubt about it.

I consider Zidane to be an amazing player who has written football history.

For me, David Beckham will always be a legend... everything David represents for soccer, as an example to children, is reserved for very few people.

Ronaldinho - he was one of my idols.

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.