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

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" Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everything is practice. "

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

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

" A penalty is a cowardly way to score. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "