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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.
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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Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.
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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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There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.
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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.
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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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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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Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?
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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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George Best was the greatest player in the world.
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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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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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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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The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
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If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
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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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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
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Everything is practice.
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The bicycle kick is not easy to do.
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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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I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.
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