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
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.
If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...
Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.
I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.
If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.
Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player
Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.
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