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Enthusiasm is everything. It must ...

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.

No individual can win a game by himself.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Everything is practice.

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

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.

Ronaldo has come through for the past two or three years and is the best in Europe. I think at the moment no doubt Ronaldo is the best player.

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

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.

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

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

When you control the ball you control the score

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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.

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

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.

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

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

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

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

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

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

George Best was the greatest player in the world.

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

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

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

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

Most important is be a good man.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.