“EVERYTHING ON EARTH IS A GAME.A PASSING THING.WE ALL END UP DEAD.WE ALL END UP THE SAME, DON’T WE?”- PELE
Edson Arantes do Nascimento (born 23
October 1940), known as Pelé , is a retired Brazilian professional
footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the
greatest football player of all time. In 1999, he was voted World Player
of the Century by the International Federation of Football History
& Statistics (IFFHS). That same year, Pelé was elected Athlete of
the Century by the International Olympic Committee. According to the
IFFHS, Pelé is the most successful league goal-scorer in the world,
scoring 1281 goals in 1363 games, which included unofficial friendlies
and tour games. During his playing days, Pelé was for a period the
best-paid athlete in the world. ( from Wikipedia)
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES BY PELE
“Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don’t we?” – Pele
“The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10
years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and
when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.” – Pele
“ Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.” – Pele
“ Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.” – Pele
“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
“ 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.” – Pele
“ A penalty is a cowardly way to score.” – Pele
“Everything is practice.” – Pele
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pele
“ 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.”- Pele
“ 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.”- Pele
“Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!” – Pele
“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
“Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.” — Pele
“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.” — Pele
“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.” – Pele
“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”- Pele
“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
“I don’t think I’m a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.” – Pele
“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.” – Pele
“ If you don’t give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.” – Pele
“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.” – Pele
“The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.” – Pele
“Pele doesn’t die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.” – Pele
“ 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.” – Pele
“Considerable research on successful soccer players and their
developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent
time in isolation, working on soccer skills.” – Pele
“Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don’t we?” – Pele
“If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.” – Pele
“Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. 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
“No individual can win a game by himself.” – Pele
“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.” – Pele
“I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think
quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal
football.” – Pele
“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” – Pele
“People always ask me: ‘When is the new Pele going to be born?’ Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.” – Pele
“ 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.”- Pele
“There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”- Pele
“ 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.”-Pele
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. – Pele
“ I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.”- Pele
“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.”- Pele
