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Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football
Sep 29, 2025
I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.
To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.
If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.
The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
International football is the continuation of war by other means.
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...
Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
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
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
Football is the ballet of the masses.
You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
You're never a loser until you quit trying.
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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