Pele Soccer Player Quotes & Sayings

Be the person you want people to one day say you were. And start now. Because the timeless truth remains that time is running out for all of us, ready or not. — A.J. Compton

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player. — Pele

I am a makeup junkie ... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good. — Julia Barr

I would rather save the enemy who tells me the truth than the friend who tells me lies. — Gena Showalter

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers. — Jason Katims

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. — Salman Rushdie

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. — Pele

To live faithfully in the time between the times is to walk a tightrope of moral discernment, claiming neither too much nor too little for God's transforming power within the community of faith. — Richard B. Hays

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer. — Eduardo Galeano

Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad. — George R R Martin

The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity. — Siegfried Sassoon

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on. — Gabrielle Roth

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one ... — William Cowper

I am a great mother. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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. — Pele

How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term goals is a must. When planning out a soccer training regime, one must strive for realistic and consistent program that will diminish specific weaknesses. Broad versatility of soccer skills is the Nirvana of every dedicated trainee. — Pele

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father. — Pele

Count only on those who believe in your dreams, because our greatness comes in our darkest moments — Joshua Okello

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all. — Andy Andrews

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. — Pele

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you. — Rajneesh

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself. — John Banville