Zico Quotes

Zico

Profession : Coach

Birth : March 3, 1953

Sometimes I make mistakes in my lineup. I don't make any mistakes to harm someone.

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In Brazil, U.S., Japan and some other countries, there are many sports being played and I hope that will be the case in India as well. Sports is good for the country.

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An athlete needs to maintain a proper diet.

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Football never surpises me.

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Sometimes a team plays very well but doesn't manage to score, while another team comes and scores. But then, that's how football is.

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Losing a game at home is never good.

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The ISL brought together many football cultures such as Italians, Dutch, French, English and Spanish. There were no Brazilians! I brought something from Brazil, a team of professionals that changed something.

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Legacy is an issue, in my opinion. People in the ISL seemed very much more worried about winning, than in creating a legacy.

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Profit and fame will not develop Indian football. Professionals, technique development, legacy specialists, and experts in football business, will develop India as football country.

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I wish I could help in a more substantial way, the football in India in a more global, national way.

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I respect the rules of the game.

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I want to win all the time; even in a dice game I want to win.

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With respect to Qatar as a country that wants to grow, you can't have a World Cup in a country that doesn't have football.

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Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two players that, the way I see it, can have a spot amongst the best of all time.

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Considering Messi's quality and everything he represents, I don't think I've seen him playing with a guy following him around the pitch the entire time with the sole purpose of not letting him play.

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Neymar and Balotelli have the same problem. They spend too much time on their activities off the pitch.

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In my days, players were only thinking about publicity during holiday and on rest days.

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Ozil is a great player. He's the brain of the German national team.

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I think the difference with Japan was that they didn't bring in too many foreign players. In my opinion at the ISL it's not too good to have too many foreigners playing. The minimum of five Indian players is too less in my opinion. Since it's the ISL, we have to encourage more Indian football.

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Maradona, if the ball came from his right, he would turn and would use his left foot, because he did not use his right. But he did use his right hand.

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