Six Top Quotes From Pele You Should Know

Following the death of football legend, Pele, many Nigerians have taken to social media to pen beautiful tributes.

Naija News earlier reported that Pele died on Thursday, December 29, 2022, after battling clone cancer.

There were reports that the 82-year-old was having cardiac issues and medical staff was concerned that his chemotherapy treatment was not having the expected results.

Hours after his demise, AFP released some of the top quotes of the late legendary footballer.

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

2. 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.

3. Pele doesn’t die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on forever. But Edson is a normal person who is going to die one day, and the people forget that.”

4. A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

5. Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don’t we?

6. I have scored more than a thousand goals in my life and the thing people always talk to me about is the one I didn’t score.