There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.
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.
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.
No individual can win a game by himself.
I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal, you need to think quickly and play quickly, so it’s easier for you when you move to normal football.
Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don’t we?
Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.
If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.
A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.
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.
Enthusiasm is everything. It must...
I don’t think I’m a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.
We’re not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he’s the best player of the century, that’s his problem.
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.