Pele Quotes
I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.
Quotes to Explore
-
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
-
The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
-
I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
-
I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
-
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
-
I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
-
When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
-
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
-
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
-
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
-
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
-
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
-
I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
-
As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
-
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
-
How to sustain the miracle
-
If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.
-
Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose of penance. What's remarkable is the extent to which penance sells among a mostly secular audience. What is there to be penitent about?
-
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
-
I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.
