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" Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football! "
Pele
Brazil
Drinks
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" 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. "
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" Everything is practice. "
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" I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know. "
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" Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we? "
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" Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever. "
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" 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. "
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" All my life I thank God. My family was very religious. "
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" A penalty is a cowardly way to score. "
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" The bicycle kick is not easy to do. "
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" When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film. "
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" When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental. "
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" I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.' "
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" The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best. "
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You
" A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders. "
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" Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father. "
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" 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 there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying. "
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Father
" I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart. "
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Think
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" The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world. "
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" Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air. "
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" In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games. "
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" If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them. "
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" Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face. "
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" 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. "
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Home
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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