"Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem."

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Source : Quoted in David PickeringThe Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).

Pele

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“All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.”
“My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.”

Source : "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.
“Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.”
“The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.”
“Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!”

Source : George Moses Horton (1997). “The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry”, p.56, Univ of North Carolina Press
“Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.”
“Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.”
“I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.”

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