Quotes & Sayings About Di Stefano

Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me. — Alfredo Di Stefano

Don Alfredo, greatest legend of Real Madrid, always with us. I will always remember maestro. — Iker Casillas

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf. — Eduardo Galeano

I chose Real Madrid instead of Barcelona because I'm a winner, not a loser — Alfredo Di Stefano

Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that — Alfredo Di Stefano

RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend. — Sergio Ramos

Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Lionel Messi without question fits into that category. — Alex Ferguson

A great amongst the greats. — Michel Platini

The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi. — Osvaldo Ardiles

I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat, — Alfredo Di Stefano

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend. — Alfredo Di Stefano

The most complete footballer in the history of the game. — Eusebio

No one player is as good as the sum of a team — Alfredo Di Stefano

A 0-0 is like a Sunday without sun. — Alfredo Di Stefano

I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'. — Alfredo Di Stefano

The bus made its way slowly through Sydney traffic and out to the electorate of Reid. It was a hat-trick of medical centres: three in three days. Outside we waited as rain fell. A large truck with the huge face of Labor's local candidate Angelo Tsirekas plastered on the side, honked as it drove past the national media. Minutes later a bigger truck, bearing the face of the Liberal candidate Craig Laundy, drove slowly past, mugging it up for the cameras. There were a few giggles. Then, as if the whole thing had been co-ordinated, both trucks returned driving past the medical centre, up the street and around the corner, one after the other. A staff member of the medical centre leant over to his friend and spoke out of the side of his mouth: "Well isn't this the lamest dick-measuring contest you've ever seen. — Mark Di Stefano

Don Alfredo leaves us, but his memory will last forever in our hearts. Legends never die. Thanks for everything Maestro. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Every few years, in the world of sport, someone ascends to the most rarefied of all levels - the one at which it becomes news not when they win, but when they lose. It must have been like that in the early Fifties, when a tubby Italian called Alberto Ascari was stitching together nine Grand Prix wins in a row, a record not even Fangio, Clark or Senna could match. Or when the great Real Madrid side of Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas won the first five European Cup finals, between 1956 and 1960. Or when Martina Navratilova dominated Wimbledon's Centre Court, winning nine ladies' singles titles in thirteen years. The current Australian cricket team is in just such a run at present, having just completed nine consecutive victories, putting them four wins away from establishing an all-time record. And then there is Tiger Woods. — Richard Williams

He was simply the most intelligent football player I ever saw. If I had one player to choose, out of all of them, to save my life, he'd be the one. — Bobby Charlton