The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
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.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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.
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.
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
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