Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, ...

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

Everything is practice.

Most important is be a good man.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

No individual can win a game by himself.

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

When you control the ball you control the score

George Best was the greatest player in the world.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

Yes, Ronaldinho is bigger than me. Exactly 4 centimeters.

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

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

Always when I come to the field, I try to do my best for other people.

Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.

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

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

I treat everybody the same. You know I love to be with people: the youngsters.

I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.

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

I think he'll reach 1000 goals, but he'll never overtake my total. (on 40-year old Romario)

Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.

Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.

I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.

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

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

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

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

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

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.

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.

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.

He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. (on Ronaldinho)

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths.

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