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

Most important is be a good man.

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

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

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.

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.

When you control the ball you control the score