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George Best was the greatest player in the world.

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Pele
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 23
Actor
Association Football Player
Athlete
Film Actor
Politician
San Mateo
California
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
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I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.
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Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.
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Everything is practice.
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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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Neymar is undoubtedly the best player in Brazil. He deserves to play in the best team in the world next to the best player in the world, Messi.He is a very good player with great quality and a great future.I have no doubt. For me, Neymar is a genius.
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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.
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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.
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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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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
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I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.
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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.
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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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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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Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.
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If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
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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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No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
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I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.
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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do
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When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.
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