Best player? For me, it's Paul Scholes. He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, “You see that tree over there?” - it'll be 40 yards away - “I'm going to hit it”. And he'll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best.
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.
The best player EVER (Leo Messi) without a shadow, if you didn't think/know already.
There is only one Messi.
When I see Big E, I clearly see someone who could be world champion. The guy is on another level.
I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.
Messi is on another planet.
I know this sounds arrogant or cocky or like I'm selling myself, but even on the court now, I don't think anybody can stop me. I just have that much confidence.
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.
What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.
When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration
Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.
Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.
He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent
If you look across my career, whether it be mixed martial arts or wrestling, it's very, very, very rare that I lose to someone that I'm not supposed to.
I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.
Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.
Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.
If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place and his acceleration will take him past any defender in the world.
I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball.
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.
When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player.
There will never be another Ronaldo 'Fenomeno.'
You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.
Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.
