Pele Quotes

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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

  Pele

  Motivational, Success, Soccer

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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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  Winning, Play, Determined

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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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  Sports, Football, White

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• The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

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  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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• There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

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  Training, Get Better, Harder

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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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  Team, Player, Made

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  Everything is practice.

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  Inspirational, Soccer, Athlete

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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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  Teamwork, Football, Games

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• The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

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  Heart, Feet

  "Pelé: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 13, 2014.

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• A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

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  Team, Player, Thinking

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• No individual can win a game by himself.

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  Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

  Pele, Robert L. Fish (2013). “My Life and the Beautiful Game”, p.170, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

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  Inspirational, People, Giving

  "And God created Pele" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. Jun 29, 2003.

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• I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

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  Football, Writing, Play

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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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  Football, People, Giving

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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• Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

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  Love Is, Important, Three

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• Most important is be a good man.

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  Men, Good Man, Important

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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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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  Inspirational, Games, Earth

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• Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

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  Inspirational, Soccer, Athlete

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• Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.

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  Football, Player, Thinking

  Quoted in David PickeringThe Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).

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• I think the kids always they look forward to be always the big stars. Not only football, any profession. They want to be the best, singer, they want to be the best political, only the stars. But I think sometime the life give you opportunity, and long to be a big star, but you don't need to be a big star, you need to be beautiful, excellent man. Human being. This is the first.

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  Beautiful, Football, Stars

  Interview with Ipek Cem, www.global-leaders.tv. November 28, 2007.

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• If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

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  Sports, Passing Away, One Day

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• Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion.

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  Hero, Passion, Fighting

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• It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.

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  Soccer, Team, Men

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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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  Sports, Heart, Play

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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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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  Athlete, Player, Thinking

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