Pele Quotes About Football

Quotes about: Football

• 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

  Pele

  Motivational, Success, Soccer

• 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.

  Pele

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

• 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.

  Pele

  Teamwork, Football, Games

• 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.

  Pele

  Sports, Football, White

• I think the kids always they look forward to be always the big stars. Not only football, any profession. They want to be the best, singer, they want to be the best political, only the stars. But I think sometime the life give you opportunity, and long to be a big star, but you don't need to be a big star, you need to be beautiful, excellent man. Human being. This is the first.

  Pele

  Beautiful, Football, Stars

  Interview with Ipek Cem, www.global-leaders.tv. November 28, 2007.

• 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.

  Pele

  Football, Growing Up, Moving

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

  Pele

  Football, Writing, Play

• 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

  Football, Father, Philosophy

• Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.

  Pele

  Football, Player, Thinking

  Quoted in David PickeringThe Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).

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

  Pele

  Football, Sleep, Brazil

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

  Pele

  Inspirational, Football, Leader

• When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

  Pele

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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

  Pele

  Sports, Football, World

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

• 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

  Football, Baby, Fun

• Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

  Pele

  Football, Crazy, Mean

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

  Pele

  Football, United States, Brazil

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

• The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

  Pele

  Football, Example, Fifa

• 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.

  Pele

  Football, People, Giving

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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