I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.
As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.
The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.