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

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.

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

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

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.

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.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.