Quotes About Pelé

Un artista es alguien que puede iluminar una habitación oscura. Yo nunca voy a encontrar la diferencia entre el pase de Pelé a Carlos Alberto en la final de 1970 y la poesía de Rimbaud.

Pele is out of normal patterns and I'm not saying this because I'm a Brazilian. You can't find a defect.

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

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

I never saw Pele, but I watched Maradona, for seven years I saw every game. He's not one of the best, he's the best.

When God built Pele, he put everything that a player needs in him. He knew how to shoot, how to dribble, how to head, be physical. He had everything that a football player needs to have. It's difficult for someone to achieve what he has in football.

Anybody who wants to compare Pele to any other athlete... do you know what I do? I hear but I don't listen.

Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.

Tactically, technically, physically, mentally he was the best. A lot of things that I learnt was from Pele's sticker albums: how to head, how to shoot the ball. It was like a step-by-step guide. I learnt from Pele as a kid.

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.

That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.

The history of Brazil goes from Pele to Garrincha, Didi, Tostao, Gerson, then to all of us who followed them.

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

Pele has all the qualities and characteristic that a football player has to have.

Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to the narrow teleology of winning matches... check the way that most of the endlessly replayed footage we see of Pele is not of him scoring goals, but audaciously missing chances contrived by force of wit.

In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

I have seen some great players doing wonderful things, but being so decisive for so long over 12 or 14 years as a professional, I think no player, maybe only Pele in his time, has shown that level. He shows it in every game. I don't know how many hat-tricks he's had.

It's really incredible to be compared to a player like 'King Pele' who is the King of Football. But what I must think about is working hard and following my own pathway and not thinking about people who compare you to other players.

Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I've got followers there who I've been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele. I'd love to go to that World Cup - I'm not sure in what capacity, but I'll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.

The first World Cup I followed was Sweden 1958. I watched the games on TV. Brazil won that World Cup by defeating Sweden 5-2 in the Final and Pele scored twice.

I was born in 1970. In 2002, I became a world champion. I was captain. I had the honor of receiving the World Cup Trophy from no less than whom? Pele! Man! If I say any more I'll cry. It's really emotional!

The athlete of the century, he scored more than 1,000 goals, and won the World Cup three times. He was complete. I don't need to say anything more. Pele is Pele. No one can beat him.

Of all the players at the World Cup I don't think it is too much to compare Ronaldinho with the great Pele.

I have dreamed of Brazil all my life. As a child, I had videos of Brazil, of their World Cup wins, of Pele, and of all the big players.