Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
Pele
Injuries
Life
Accept
Related Quotes:
" No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer. "
Pele
Soccer
Money
More
" 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. "
Pele
Young
Want
Father
" When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult. "
Pele
Escape
Easy
Know
" 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. "
Pele
World
Team
Experience
" If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them. "
Pele
Them
People
Education
" Everything is practice. "
Pele
Everything
Practice
" 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. "
Pele
Way
Test
Measure
" 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. "
Pele
Home
Talent
Team
" Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football! "
Pele
Brazil
Drinks
Football
" I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know. "
Pele
Know
Lie
Night
" 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
Serious
Proud
Name
" 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. "
Pele
Best
Game
You
" The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world. "
Pele
World
Top
Level
" Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people. "
Pele
Inspirational
Young
Something
" 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.' "
Pele
Health
Good
Father
" Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. "
Pele
Enthusiasm
Like
Guitar
" 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. "
Pele
Best
Happy
World
" 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. "
Pele
Name
Family
Football
" 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. "
Pele
Play
My Life
Life
" The bicycle kick is not easy to do. "
Pele
Bicycle
Easy
Kick
" The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks. "
Pele
Goals
Two
Bicycle
" Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air. "
Pele
Wonderful
Intelligent
He
" 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. "
Pele
Moments
Power
Trust
" I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player. "
Pele
Soccer
Always
Actor
" A penalty is a cowardly way to score. "
Pele
Cowardly
Way
Score
" Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face. "
Pele
Base
Supports
Person
" Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola. "
Pele
Coca-Cola
You
Three
" When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place. "
Pele
Friends
You
Your
" When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things. "
Pele
Young
Stupid
Things
" 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. "
Pele
Mexico
Want
Play