Leo Messi: "I don’t use ChatGPT... In fact, I don't use AI; not because I’m against it, I just haven’t got into it or figured it out. Antonela is on ChatGPT all day, asking it everything – recipes, questions about food, about everything, but I haven’t gotten into that world."
Leo Messi on text messages:
"I’m not someone who messages a lot, not even with my friends or my family."
"I’m pretty bad with sending text messages and keeping relationships going over the phone. Then I see you and it’s like no time has passed!"
"It’s not that I don’t love you, quite the opposite. But it’s hard for me to text, to answer, then get a reply and have to write again."
"I don’t like that very much, so I tend to stay away from messaging."
Leo Messi on the perception of him being 'weird' and 'strange'
"I know I’m a bit weird than most people in some things... I like being alone a lot."
"Sometimes the chaos at home with the three kids running all over the place ends up saturating me, and I need my moments of loneliness."
"In those moments when I’m alone I can be just lying down watching TV or a match. Nothing special, just being quiet."
"It depends on my mood, but very small things, tiny details, can really affect me... If someone moves something from where I left it or changes what I had planned for the day, it can already put me in a bad mood."
"I’m very structured. If I have my day organized in a certain way and something happens in the middle that isn’t planned, I’m already annoyed."
"When I’m like that, I shut down. I don’t communicate it, I process it inside."
Leo Messi on his treatment and why he left Newell’s to join Barcelona:
"I started the treatment when I was 11. It was a very expensive treatment."
"The company where my dad worked covered part of it, but even with that it wasn’t enough because it cost a lot."
"I remember going to do tests, running a block in the street, coming back, more tests… And from there I began the treatment."
"My mom had to cross Rosario to get the money Newell’s had promised us and many times they gave her only 5 pesos, 10 pesos, or they’d tell her, ‘The person who has to give you the money isn’t here.’"
"That’s why my mom was so angry with certain people at Newell’s. In the end it wasn’t the club as an institution, it was a specific person who was there at that time."
"Because of everything that happened, I ended up leaving Newell’s, going to Barcelona, the family split, and life started to be different."
Leo Messi on his 'order' obssession:
"Antonela always reproaches me about order, but I’ve always been OBSESSED with order."
"In the beginning I changed her... She was a disaster and I was very, very orderly. Now we’re at about the same level."
"I’m the kind of person who has the clothes laid out the day before for training, everything in its place."
"Also, I DON'T LIKE people touching my things. I have to know exactly where everything is... Thiago is just like me. Ciro too, in many ways."
