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I am not Pele or Maradona -- Robbie Savage
Pele should go back to the museum. -- Diego Maradona
Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen. -- Bobby Moore
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. -- John Lambie
It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him. -- Thierry Henry
That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm. -- Ron Atkinson
Pele was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic. -- Osvaldo Ardiles
If I had been born ugly, you would have never heard of Pele -- George Best
Pele was a complete player. I didn't see him live obviously, because I wasn't born -- David Beckham
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. -- George Best
Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there would only be one Pele in the world -- Ronaldo
The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi. -- Osvaldo Ardiles
Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there would only be one Pele in the world. -- Osvaldo Ardiles
Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else. -- Adriano Galliani
Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play. -- Adriano Galliani
There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God. -- Eusebio
I met Pele once. I am not often nervous but in this moment I was shaking. He's a wonderful person. -- Jurgen Klopp
The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better. -- Osvaldo Ardiles
We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele. -- Howard Gardner
Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart, -- Johnny Giles
His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close. -- Leonard Cohen
Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele. -- Michel Patini
There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me. -- Diego Maradona
I can't be compared to Pele. I need to do so much more to be compared to Pele. Pele is fantastic. And he's unique. -- Neymar
My father gave me some advice when I was very young - whatever someone tells you in the future, don't forget Pele is the best. -- Jurgen Klopp
My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing. -- Lennie James
That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all. -- Gordon Banks
It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's. -- Neymar
Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice. -- Alton Brown
I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me. -- Alex Ferguson
Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele"¦ Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar. -- Gary Lineker
People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn't see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There's always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people's vote. -- Diego Maradona
Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model. -- Martin Jacques
Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best. -- Xavi
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Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world. -- Oliver Kahn
Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Lionel Messi without question fits into that category. -- Alex Ferguson
Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever. -- Pele
Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola. -- Pele
Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face. -- Pele
People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory. -- Pele
I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important. -- Pele
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. -- Pele
Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese. -- Pele
For 20 years they have asked me the same question, who is the greatest? Pele or Maradona? I replay 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? -- Pele
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer. -- Eduardo Galeano

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