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“Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
— Pelé
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Quoted in "SI Flashback: Soccer's greatest genius" Sports Illustrated, (1 June 1999)
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