Exceptional Player Quotes

Ronaldo is brilliant, Messi more my kind of player. He sees the game so clearly. He can score, create; he's the complete player - the best ever, probably.

I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did. He made my job as a catcher so much easier. Mariano is a special person and obviously a special player.

Messi is one of the best in the world.

Ibra is the best. He has always made a difference wherever he has gone.

Messi is one of the best strikers in the world, one of the very best players.

It is great to play with a player like Eden Hazard. He is one of the best in the world, and I am very lucky to play with him.

Lionel Messi is very difficult to contain.

Iniesta - he is the Zinedine Zidane of the team, because he can do whatever you want him to with the ball.

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

I've never met a player like Leo Messi.

Donnie Thomas is simply a superlative linebacker with everything it takes to be an all-American.

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.

For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with.

I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them.

I love watching Messi with the ball at his feet. He scores goals and everything else.

I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

With his incredible attitude, with his incredible winning mentality, Cristiano Ronaldo is a unique player.

Iniesta is the boyfriend that every mother wants her daughter to have. The figures over his career tell you all you need to know. He is a magical player. There are few players in the world that can compare to him.

Zidane was one of the best players that I have seen. Now as a coach, I try to learn as much as possible from him. He knows a lot because he was an exceptional player.

Messi is so good that he can win La Liga even with a mediocre team, which is not the case. Barca remain up top every year because of him.

It is very difficult to play beside Messi and whoever understands it any other way is a fool.

I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

Lahm is a scandal. He is super-intelligent, understands the game brilliantly, knows when to come inside or to stay wide. The guy is f****** exceptional