PELE DEATH

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Best Quotes "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." "Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string." "If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them." "The bicycle kick is not easy to do." "A penalty is a cowardly way to score." "Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people." "I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'" "The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks." "At 17, I already had responsibility because I took care of my family, but in the football I was young; I wasn't experienced or the captain - I was just in the team." "All my life I thank God. My family was very religious." "When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film." "I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference." "When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult." "When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things." "When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire." "To be a striker you need to be in good shape." "Everything is practice." "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." "I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players." "Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever." "When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place." "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." "Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games." "Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it." "I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important."