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Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.
Pele
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Pele
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 23
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Association Football Player
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Film Actor
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San Mateo
California
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
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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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Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.
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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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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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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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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
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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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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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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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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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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 bicycle kick is not easy to do.
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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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Everyone talks about the forwards, the players when they are scoring goals. But sometimes I look for the complete player not just the players who score but those who can pass.
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He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. (on Ronaldinho)
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Everything is practice.
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If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
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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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To be a striker you need to be in good shape.
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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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