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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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" Everything is practice. "

" I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A penalty is a cowardly way to score. "

" 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. "

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

" Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever. "

" At 17, I already had responsibility because I took care of my family, but in the football I was young; I wasn't experienced or the captain - I was just in the team. "

" 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. "

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

" I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know. "

" 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. "

" All my life I thank God. My family was very religious. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "