Pele Quotes

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

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

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

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

No individual can win a game by himself.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.

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

Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

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

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

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

I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.

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.

Ronaldo has come through for the past two or three years and is the best in Europe. I think at the moment no doubt Ronaldo is the best player.

When you control the ball you control the score

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

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

I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.

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.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

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

George Best was the greatest player in the world.

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.

Most important is be a good man.

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.

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.

His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him. (on Freddy Adu)

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

Always when I come to the field, I try to do my best for other people.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

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.

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

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

I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

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.

We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.

Everyone talks about the forwards, the players when they are scoring goals. But sometimes I look for the complete player not just the players who score but those who can pass.

I treat everybody the same. You know I love to be with people: the youngsters.

Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.

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.