Quotes from Pele

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.

No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

No individual can win a game by himself.

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

His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him. (on Freddy Adu)

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.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

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

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

Everything is practice.

Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.