Pele Quotes

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Pele

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 23, 1940

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

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You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

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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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I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

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To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

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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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When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.

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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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A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

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The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

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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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I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.

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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.

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I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

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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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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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When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film.

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