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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 17, 2025
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.
I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.
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.
That lad must have been born offside.
The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
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.
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.
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...
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
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.
I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.
You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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.
All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
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.
Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend Pelé has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without proper soccer training a player will never reach his full potential. It is true that great speed would benefit someone who plays as a winger but would not be as useful for a goalkeeper. The greatest advantage of soccer is that it is not as discriminating as basketball or volleyball. There are no limitations when it comes to physique and it all comes down to individual soccer skills.
If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.
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