Pele Quotes About Football

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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.

  • 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.'

  • I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.

  • Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

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  • Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

  • Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

  • The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

  • Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.

    Quoted in David PickeringThe Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).
  • Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

    "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.
  • Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

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    Source: www.global-leaders.tv
  • I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

    Source: www.global-leaders.tv
  • The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

  • When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

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  • I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

  • 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

  • Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.

    Source: www.global-leaders.tv
  • A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

  • I think the kids always they look forward to be always the big stars. Not only football, any profession. They want to be the best, singer, they want to be the best political, only the stars. But I think sometime the life give you opportunity, and long to be a big star, but you don't need to be a big star, you need to be beautiful, excellent man. Human being. This is the first.

    Interview with Ipek Cem, www.global-leaders.tv. November 28, 2007.
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Pele

  • Born: October 23, 1940
  • Occupation: Soccer player