Pele Quotes
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Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!
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The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.
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Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.
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Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?
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A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.
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Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
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To be a striker you need to be in good shape.
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The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
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Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.
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When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.
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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
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The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.
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Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.
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The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.
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Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.
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I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'
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Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.
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At 17, I already had responsibility because I took care of my family, but in the football I was young; I wasn't experienced or the captain - I was just in the team.
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Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.
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I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.
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Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
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I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.
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I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.
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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.