Pele

I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

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.

I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.

In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.

When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film.

To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

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

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.

At 17, I already had responsibility because I took care of my family, but in the football I was young; I wasn't experienced or the captain - I was just in the team.

Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.

The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.