Pelé

“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 more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”

“Everything is practice.”

“If you are first, you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”

“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”

“I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.”

“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.”

“No individual can win a game by himself.”

“Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.”

“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.”

“Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”

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

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

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

“To be a striker, you have to be in a good relationship with the goal.”

“The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.”

“I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God.'”

“Where ever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.”