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

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

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

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.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

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

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.

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.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

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

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared, ' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.

Wise are you, indeed... to know what is not possible.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.

I am prepared to try anything once.