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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.
— Pele
Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.
— Pele
Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.
— Pele
I can't be compared to Pele. I need to do so much more to be compared to Pele. Pele is fantastic. And he's unique.
— Neymar
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.
— Pele
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.
— Pele
Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.
— Adriano Galliani
The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better.
— Osvaldo Ardiles
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.
— Pele
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.
— Pele
Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there would only be one Pele in the world.
— Osvaldo Ardiles
The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi.
— Osvaldo Ardiles
Love is more important than what we can take ... Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!
— Pele
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.
— Pele
Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?
— Pele
The man with the black-and-white-striped eyes shivered, and began hunting for a door, but none of the guests had remembered to bring a door with them.
— Neil Gaiman
I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.
— Pele
There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
— Diego Maradona
We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.
— Pele
I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.
— Pele
People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.
— Pele
I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.
— Pele
Pele was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic.
— Osvaldo Ardiles
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.
— Pele
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.
— Pele
Everything is practice.
— Pele
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.
— Pele
Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.
— Pele
Pele should go back to the museum.
— Diego Maradona
Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.
— Pele
His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
— Leonard Cohen
That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.
— Ron Atkinson
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
— George Best
If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.
— Pele
The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.
— Pele
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.
— Pele
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.
— Pele
It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.
— Thierry Henry
Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play.
— Adriano Galliani
Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.
— Bobby Moore
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.
— Pele
Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart,
— Johnny Giles
The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.
— Pele
I am not Pele or Maradona
— Robbie Savage
Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.
— Pele
Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.
— Pele
There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.
— Eusebio
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
— Pele
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.
— John Lambie