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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.
Pele
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Pele
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 23
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Edson Arantes do Nascimento
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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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George Best was the greatest player in the world.
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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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To be a striker you need to be in good shape.
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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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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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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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Most important is be a good man.
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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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Everything is practice.
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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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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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I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.
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You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.
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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
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Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.
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The bicycle kick is not easy to do.
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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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There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.
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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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