Gary Neville Quotes

He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best... Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo.

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

Messi I think is like me, he is the best in the world along with Ronaldinho.

Maradona was absolutely the best player I ever played with.

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

For me, Messi is the greatest player in history, the greatest player I've ever seen.

Messi always plays at a sublime level. He's the best player in history.

It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.

Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.

Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time.

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

The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already.

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

Messi's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

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.

Messi the best player in the world by far. I don't think we'll ever see a player like him again.

Lionel Messi is the best player ever.

The best player I ever played against is Thierry Henry. He was something else; i've played against Rooney and Ronaldo and players like that but i think he was the best player ever to play in the Premier League

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.

It has been an honour to be the coach of the best player (Messi) I have ever seen and probably the best I will see.

I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.

I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.

Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.

I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do