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Pele Quotes

Total quotes: 28
“If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.”
— Pele, The Monday interview: And God created Pele
Tagged: Education, manipulation, Gullibility
“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
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”
— Pele, Most Inspirational Sports Quotes Of All Time
Tagged: Motivational Sport Quotes, Inspirational, Talent, athlete, Success, Winning, victory, Happiness
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice.”
— Pele
Tagged: Success, Hard Work, perseverance, Learning, studying, Sacrifice
“Pelé doesn't die. Pelé will never die. Pelé is going to go on forever.”
— Pele, The Monday interview: And God created Pele
Tagged: Immortality, Arrogance
“Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?”
— Pele
Tagged: Game, Mortality
“I think of Pelé as a gift of God. We have billions of billions of people in the world, and we have one Beethoven, one Bach, one Michelangelo, one Pelé. That is the gift of God.”
— Pele, The Monday interview: And God created Pele
Tagged: Gift of God, God, Beethoven, Bach, Michelangelo, Arrogance
“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
“I never wanted to be a leader. But everybody knows my history. It came naturally. All the focus was on me. I just tried to pass on my best to the other players, to tell them what I thought was important in my life.”
— Pele, Page Not Found
Tagged: leader, History, Important, Leadership
“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.”
— Pele, Pelé | The Talks
Tagged: Doing Your Best, soccer, Football
“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
“Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.”
— Pele
Tagged: soccer, kids, Responsibility, manhood
“If you're honest and you want to work, America opens its doors.”
— Pele, 21 Lessons from Pele, The Greatest Soccer Player of All Time
Tagged: Honesty, Hard Work, America
“I always remember the games in which I score.”
— Pele, Pele: My five-minute interview with Brazilian great
Tagged: Memories, scoring
“I have a very good family that supports me when I need it. I’ve always been in football, which I love, and then with the public, which I love too. Of course, I had to change my life a little bit and lose some privacy. But my personality grew into it through the years.”
— Pele, Page Not Found
Tagged: Family, support, soccer, Football, Privacy, Personality
“The reason the sport has grown so big, I think, is that it's not only for rich people. It's not just for big people—size doesn't exclude people. Everyone can participate. That's why it's become so popular worldwide. You don't need to have any special quality in particular to play.”
— Pele, How Henry Kissinger Convinced Pelé to Play Soccer in the U.S.
Tagged: Football, soccer, size
“A friend is part of your family.”
— Pele, 21 Lessons from Pele, The Greatest Soccer Player of All Time
Tagged: Friend, Family, Fam
“The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.”
— Pele, 21 Lessons from Pele, The Greatest Soccer Player of All Time
Tagged: soccer, Head, heart, Feet
“I was born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music.”
— Pele
Tagged: soccer, Beethoven
“P is for Pelé. The greatest footballer of all time.”
— Pele, Pele: My five-minute interview with Brazilian great
Tagged: Arrogance, Football, soccer, The Greatest
“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
“Of course the work is very, very important. That is exactly what my father meant: God gave you the gift to play football, but this is a present. 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. Another thing I say is, if I am a good player, if I have a gift from God but I don’t have the physical condition to run on the field what am I going to do?”
— Pele, Pelé | The Talks
Tagged: Football, soccer, God, gifts, Gift From God
“Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world. It is the biggest family in the world is the football. The same passion you have here in Turkey, we have in Brazil, they have in Russia, they have in Germany, they have... you know football is the only sport where you put people together, you know, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.”
— Pele
Tagged: Football, soccer, Turkey, Brazil, Germany, Russia, Race, beauty
“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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