Pele Quotes

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• Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be…
• It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was…
• Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend Pelé has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without…
• Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer…
• How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term…
• Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football…
• There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.
• People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.
• George Best was the greatest player in the world.
• I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.
• I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get away from that…
• Enthusiasm is everything. It must...
• We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.
• The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.
• The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and…
• When you control the ball you control the score
• Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.
• 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…
• When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad…
• 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…

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