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A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
Pele
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Pele
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 23
Actor
Association Football Player
Athlete
Film Actor
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San Mateo
California
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
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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.
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Ronaldo has come through for the past two or three years and is the best in Europe. I think at the moment no doubt Ronaldo is the best player.
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Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.
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Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.
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Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.
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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.
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Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
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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.
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I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.
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No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
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I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.
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I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.
Pele
To be a striker you need to be in good shape.
Pele
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)
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If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.
Pele
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
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The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.
Pele
People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.
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When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm
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