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.
Our goal isn't to go undefeated. Like, 'Hey, we're going to have an undefeated season.' Our goal is to win every game we're playing. And there's a difference.
There's the gold standard, and then there's the purple-and-gold standard.
It's just the way I'm set up, being that once-in-a-generation, once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-an-era type of star.
Fella’s a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele… Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar.
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it.
People say, 'Pep won in Barca, but it was boring,' or, 'Pep won in Bayern, but it was boring.' I understand that. But games won, goals scored, goals conceded, titles... sorry, guys, it was good!
I don't think there is ever going to be another Serena Williams.
Cristiano is one of the best players of all-time - there's no doubt about it.
Championship caliber teams don't lose two in a row and they damn sure don't lose three in a row.
I felt like the best player on the court every night in college.
I don't want to be like any other boxer. My goal is to be a champion in my own style.
There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.
I don't think being undefeated is going to determine my greatness.
There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.
I don't think people understand how good LeBron is.
We exalted that Michael Phelps-consecrated water. Rose petals were strewn in Peyton Manning's path when he retired. But hey, that's natural. As we should, we admire those in any craft, no less so in sports, who appear out of nowhere to achieve remarkable feats.
I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.
I'm going to stay champion for a long time.
When people mention me and Messi together, it's amazing because, to me, Messi is the best of the best. You can't say anything to him; he's the boss.
I'm never satisfied until I win all the games and have an ERA of 0.00.
There's no other player that's playing basketball on this earth that has accomplished some of the things I've accomplished, and it's all through showing love and winning championships.
