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

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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? "

" 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.' "

" The bicycle kick is not easy to do. "

" 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. "

" I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball. "

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

" 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. "

" Everything is practice. "

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

" Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese. "

" A penalty is a cowardly way to score. "

" 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. "