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

Everything is practice.

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

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

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.

All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

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.'

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

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.

I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

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.

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

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.

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.

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.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.

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.

The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

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.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.

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.

No individual can win a game by himself.

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

When you control the ball you control the score.

Brazil eats sleeps and drinks football. It lives football

Brazil is crazy about football. People they wait for this moment but this doesnt mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.