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

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.

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

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

Everything is practice.

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 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.