Football Quotes by Zico

My philosophy is always to play for a win.

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I respect the rules of the game.

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Football always has pressure.

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I am not a magician of football.

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Losing a game at home is never good.

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I will never give up on football that is played well.

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Football never surpises me.

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In football, everything is possible.

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You can't win the World Cup without playing the big boys.

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

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There is nothing wrong in losing with dignity, it is a part of the game.

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I always play players who are fit - even if it means playing out of position.

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For me, the 1982 Brazil squad was the best, although we could not win the World Cup.

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Maradona is among the best five players I've ever seen: Garrincha, Pele, Diego, Cruijff and Beckenbauer.

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Football is a collective game, not an individual game.

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Maradona has done a lot for his clubs, as Messi does, and for the Argentina national team.

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In Japan, football has grown but it doesn't mean that baseball has regressed. Baseball also has grown with football.

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I don't think Pele was the ultimate hero for our generation, he is the ultimate hero of every generation of Brazilians.

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When you hear cheers at the moment you need a bit of a push, players can react to that and perform at…

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In Japan, when I went there, there was no professionalism at all. But the biggest advantage was that everyone was united and…

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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…

— Zico

Brazilian football has always been very much admired in Japan and, of course, after my participation and so many other Brazilians, it…

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I am thankful to Fenerbahce for the opportunity that they gave me and I believe that I repaid their faith with good…

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The history of Brazil goes from Pele to Garrincha, Didi, Tostao, Gerson, then to all of us who followed them.

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I remember Arsene Wenger very well from our time in Japan. I like the way his teams play, with an offensive mentality…

— Zico

It's so important to be chosen for the national team. For the Copa America, for the World Cup, or just friendly matches,…

— Zico

Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi never ever stop playing for the team. If I were young today, they are players on which…

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Tactically, technically, physically, mentally he was the best. A lot of things that I learnt was from Pele's sticker albums: how to…

— Zico

Arsene Wenger's mentality has been to bring together footballers who bring happiness in our sport, the type of players I like to…

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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…

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When God built Pele, he put everything that a player needs in him. He knew how to shoot, how to dribble, how…

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I've always seen football as a game. You lose or win.

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

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Everything you can imagine from a player, Pele has done it.

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Others are others, Pele is Pele, he is totally different.

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

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I will never do as a coach the things I hated people doing to me when I was a player.

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Pele has all the qualities and characteristic that a football player has to have.

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My philosophy is always to play forward because goal is the reason of football.

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It's bad when there are internal problems at the club - when people have doubts about you internally.

— Zico