Everything is practice.

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.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.