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Pele Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“From my point of view, what's beautiful in the sport is something you don't need to know too much about tactics or anything to see. If you find something beautiful, you don't need to be an expert to know it. It's like ballet. ”
— Pele, How Henry Kissinger Convinced Pelé to Play Soccer in the U.S.
Tagged: Beautiful, soccer, Football, Ballet
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice.”
— Pele
Tagged: Success, Hard Work, perseverance, Learning, studying, Sacrifice
“I recently discovered the meaning of Pelé. Friends in Brazil have been trying to find the meaning for years and years and have looked all over the world, and they've just discovered in the Bible in Hebrew it means miracle!”
— Pele, The Monday interview: And God created Pele
Tagged: Pele, Brazil, Bible, Hebrew, Miracle
“Football is the ultimate in team sport. And no individual can win a game by himself. Pelé is a famous name, but Pelé made his goals because another player passed to him at the proper time.”
— Pele, Pele, the perfect player
Tagged: Football, soccer, Team Sports, individuals, Teamwork
“There is never going to be a new Pelé because my father and my mother closed the machine.”
— Pele, Pelé | The Talks
Tagged: Broke the Mold, mother, father, Machine
“I cried watching that game and not just because of the score. I cried because I do not know what happened to the joy of Brazilian football.”
— Pele
Tagged: Crying, soccer, Brazil, Football, Joy
“The biggest family in the world today is football, because football has more associate—and FIFA, for example—has more associates than UNESCO. Then it becomes a big family.”
— Pele
Tagged: FIFA, UNESCO, Football, soccer, Family
“A friend is part of your family.”
— Pele, 21 Lessons from Pele, The Greatest Soccer Player of All Time
Tagged: Friend, Family, Fam
“Courage can bring huge benefits to those who are prepared.”
— Pele, 21 Lessons from Pele, The Greatest Soccer Player of All Time
Tagged: Courage
“I used to tease the other kids because I played better than them. Then my father said, Come here. Don’t do this with the kids, because God gave you the gift to play football. You didn’t do anything. This was a present from God. You have to respect people, because it is important to be a good man, a good person. From now on, you must be this example.”
— Pele, Pelé | The Talks
Tagged: teasing, bullying, God, Football, soccer, Respect
“The reason it was nicknamed ginga was that normally, when we'd play against a European team—now it's changed a bit—but back then, the European teams were very tough and physical. They were big, and defensively solid. Even the English, who invented football, were like that starting out. There were some in Brazil who thought we should make that our football culture….We would say, ‘We want to dance. We want to ginga. Football is not about fighting to the death. You have to play beautifully.’ And so we did, and that's the reason that Brazil created more of a show, more of a ballet, than the European style.”
— Pele, How Henry Kissinger Convinced Pelé to Play Soccer in the U.S.
Tagged: Ginga, soccer, Football, english, Brazil, European
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