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

It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.

When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

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

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

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.