"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"
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"Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose."
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"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."
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"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning."
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"There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you."
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"A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders."
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"A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit."
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"Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths."
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"Everything is practice."
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"Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem."
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"The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet."
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"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
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"I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint."
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"No individual can win a game by himself."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I think the kids always they look forward to be always the big stars. Not only football, any profession. They want to be the best, singer, they want to be the best political, only the stars. But I think sometime the life give you opportunity, and long to be a big star, but you don't need to be a big star, you need to be beautiful, excellent man. Human being. This is the first."
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"Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?"
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"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."
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"If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them."
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