Showing posts with label football quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label football quotes. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Pele famous quotes on soccer collection

Some of the famous quotes from the Brazilian football soccer legend Pele

"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."

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

"Everything is practice."

"A penalty is a cowardly way to score."

“I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.”

"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."

"For 20 years they have been asking me the same question, who is the greatest? Maradona or Pele? I reply that all you have to do is look at the facts - how many goals did he score with his right foot or with his head?"

"He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives (Brazilians) the most joy." Pele, on Ronaldinho

"The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal."

"I think he'll reach 1000 goals, but he'll never overtake my total." Pele on Romario

Friday, January 2, 2009

Diego Maradona famous quotes collection

Some of the famous quotes from the great footballer Diego Maradona

"When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end" - Maradona on the excitement of playing for national team, Argentina

"Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God." Diego Maradona, after scoring with his hand against England at World Cup '86

"The Lord helps those who help themselves."

"I've come to add something and not to take away anyone's position"

"I am calm, ... My surname is not a burden for me. It might be for others, but not for me."

"I did it with the hand of reason." Diego Maradona, after smashing a photographers car

"God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't."

"I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday" - Maradona, 1996, as part of Argentina's anti-drugs campaign.

"I had the vote of the people. Pele won by the book." - Maradona, leaving little doubt who he thinks deserved the FIFA award.
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