“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”Tagged: Motivational Sport Quotes, Inspirational, Talent, athlete, Success
“I recently discovered the meaning of Pelé. Friends in Brazil have been trying to find the meaning for years and years and have looked all over the world, and they've just discovered in the Bible in Hebrew it means miracle!”Tagged: Pele, Brazil, Bible, Hebrew, Miracle
“I think of Pelé as a gift of God. We have billions of billions of people in the world, and we have one Beethoven, one Bach, one Michelangelo, one Pelé. That is the gift of God.”Tagged: Gift of God, God, Beethoven, Bach, Michelangelo
“If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.”Tagged: Education, manipulation, Gullibility
“Pelé doesn't die. Pelé will never die. Pelé is going to go on forever.”Tagged: Immortality, Arrogance
“Football is the ultimate in team sport. And no individual can win a game by himself. Pelé is a famous name, but Pelé made his goals because another player passed to him at the proper time.”Tagged: Football, soccer, Team Sports, individuals, Teamwork
“P is for Pelé. The greatest footballer of all time.”Tagged: Arrogance, Football, soccer, The Greatest
“I have a very good family that supports me when I need it. I’ve always been in football, which I love, and then with the public, which I love too. Of course, I had to change my life a little bit and lose some privacy. But my personality grew into it through the years.”Tagged: Family, support, soccer, Football, Privacy
“I never wanted to be a leader. But everybody knows my history. It came naturally. All the focus was on me. I just tried to pass on my best to the other players, to tell them what I thought was important in my life.”Tagged: leader, History, Important, Leadership
“There is never going to be a new Pelé because my father and my mother closed the machine.”Tagged: Broke the Mold, mother, father, Machine
“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.”Tagged: Doing Your Best, soccer, Football
“Of course the work is very, very important. That is exactly what my father meant: God gave you the gift to play football, but this is a present. 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…”Tagged: Football, soccer, God, gifts, Gift From God
“I used to tease the other kids because I played better than them. Then my father said, Come here. Don’t do this with the kids, because God gave you the gift to play football. You didn’t do anything. This was a present from God. You have to respect people, because it is important to be a good man, a…”Tagged: teasing, bullying, God, Football, soccer
“The reason it was nicknamed ginga was that normally, when we'd play against a European team—now it's changed a bit—but back then, the European teams were very tough and physical. They were big, and defensively solid. Even the English, who invented football, were like that starting out. There were…”Tagged: Ginga, soccer, Football, english, Brazil
“From my point of view, what's beautiful in the sport is something you don't need to know too much about tactics or anything to see. If you find something beautiful, you don't need to be an expert to know it. It's like ballet.”Tagged: Beautiful, soccer, Football, Ballet