Quotes About Talent

I have played the World Cup qualifiers on the left wing, and that position suits me fine.

Of all the players at the World Cup I don't think it is too much to compare Ronaldinho with the great Pele.

Dennis Bergkamp is, in my eyes, still 'The Master'. The fact that he never won the Champions League, the European Championship, or the World Cup does not take anything away from his greatness as a player.

Messi deserves to win this World Cup for all he has done for football.

Messi is a god, as a person and even more as a player. I hope that he wins the World Cup with Argentina.

To be able to earn what Cristiano earns, I would have had to have been the best player at the World Cup or won the Ballon d'Or.

I want to play right-back. I have worked my whole life to get to where I am now in a World Cup squad and to showcase my talent in the World Cup stage, playing in my position.

In a World Cup, the girls at Lyon are probably the ones that are going to change the games, and I know them inside out.

To speak of Mexico '86, I can make it short and speak only of Maradona. I never saw a player who dominated a World Cup like he did in '86.

When you have a group of players with self-belief... nine times out of 10, players can be very talented to make the roster, but they need that quality, and it is pivotal at a World Cup.

Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.

Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.

What can you say about Messi? A guy who has won five Ballon d'Ors, four Champions Leagues and has scored 97 goals in a year. There is no need to win a World Cup to certify that talent.

You always want to see the best players in action at a World Cup, and the players always want to measure themselves up to the very best.

The message to all Brazilians is that talent alone does not win the World Cup, it's about working hard.

I said to Gotze: 'OK, show the world you are better than Messi and can decide the World Cup.' I told him that. I always had a good feeling about Gotze.

You can put the players on the pitch but they always move and systems change. I think, though, that Messi has to be a special case and that the other nine outfield players should support him. But one player on his own is not going to win you the World Cup.

For me, the 1982 Brazil squad was the best, although we could not win the World Cup.

Messi is the best player in the world. If he wins a World Cup, he will be the best player ever.

It's easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record as the most-awarded female act of all time, with over 415 major recognitions during her career. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive number one songs.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

I have done 33 films in one year, for which I hold a Guinness Book World record. Plus I've done songs for all languages from Hindi to Malayalam, Punjabi to Telugu, and Kannada to Oriya.

Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand, but he could take a card and fire it over there and stick it into an apple. If he kept training at it, he could definitely break a Guinness World Record - he's that good.