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I am not a magician of football.
I am not White Pele. I am simply Zico.
I've been through everything in soccer.
Everyone has the right to make mistakes.
An athlete needs to maintain a proper diet.
I am a Brazilian and only support our team.
You need to always try to find new challenges.
If you want to try new challenges you have to adapt.
I will never give up on football that is played well.
Football is a collective game, not an individual game.
Others are others, Pele is Pele, he is totally different.
You can't win the World Cup without playing the big boys.
Everything you can imagine from a player, Pele has done it.
I want to win all the time; even in a dice game I want to win.
When I can, I always like coming to Italy to have some nice wine.
Ozil is a great player. He's the brain of the German national team.
When Brazil take part in any competition they must always play to win.
I don't know why everyone refers to me as White Pele. I don't like it.
There is nothing wrong in losing with dignity, it is a part of the game.
My father taught me to love Flamengo, which has always been my second home.
Pele has all the qualities and characteristic that a football player has to have.
Everything Maradona did, he did with a guy hanging on his neck during 90 minutes.
Sometimes I make mistakes in my lineup. I don't make any mistakes to harm someone.
For me, the 1982 Brazil squad was the best, although we could not win the World Cup.
I have always said that to manage Brazil I would have to be managing in Brazil first.
In my days, players were only thinking about publicity during holiday and on rest days.
Every great player is more outstanding in the victory, but has more pressure in defeats.
I was born close to soccer, and I've been living and working in soccer since I was small.
Maradona has done a lot for his clubs, as Messi does, and for the Argentina national team.
I prefer to win a game and lose other 2 rather than draw 3 games. Both cases you get 3 points.
Honestly speaking, I was not really interested in a managerial job when my playing career ended.
My grandfather is a musician, my son is a musician and a singer. My mother played the piano too.
I wish I could help in a more substantial way, the football in India in a more global, national way.
It's bad when there are internal problems at the club - when people have doubts about you internally.
It is always good to keep learning. Every day things change and we should recycle ourselves every day.
Neymar and Balotelli have the same problem. They spend too much time on their activities off the pitch.
Maradona is among the best five players I've ever seen: Garrincha, Pele, Diego, Cruijff and Beckenbauer.
I believe that soccer can be an example of understanding and peace between countries and between peoples.
The history of Brazil goes from Pele to Garrincha, Didi, Tostao, Gerson, then to all of us who followed them.
When you hear cheers at the moment you need a bit of a push, players can react to that and perform at their best.
Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two players that, the way I see it, can have a spot amongst the best of all time.
In Japan, football has grown but it doesn't mean that baseball has regressed. Baseball also has grown with football.
I don't think Pele was the ultimate hero for our generation, he is the ultimate hero of every generation of Brazilians.
My only dream was to wear the number ten shirt of Flamengo. Since then I have just taken things as they have come to me.
India has a population of over 1 billion people. There is place for all sports and for sure there is space for football.
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.
A great player can win, but cannot claim titles alone. You need to have a great team who are close and able to support you.
Football is a collective sport and many times it doesn't depend on you playing well. It depends if the team is playing well.
Legacy is an issue, in my opinion. People in the ISL seemed very much more worried about winning, than in creating a legacy.
Sometimes you decide games, but you can't decide a competition. So, Messi's merit is not undone because he hasn't won a World Cup.