Giovanni Dos Santos #17

"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
Brazilian soccer player, considered possibly world's greatest.

"The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona."
-Maradona
Argentinian soccer player, on goal against England in 1986 World Cup.

"Fail to prepare, prepare to fail."
-Roy Keane
Irish soccer player and English football club manager.

"Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life."
-George Best
Northern Ireland soccer player, from his autobiography, The Good, The Bad and the Bubbly

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