Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Zico
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian coach Zico.
Last updated on November 3, 2024.
Legacy is an issue, in my opinion. People in the ISL seemed very much more worried about winning, than in creating a legacy.
When I was a kid, my big hero was the number 10 of Flamengo and not the number 10 of Santos. His name was Dida. We didn't have much knowledge about the championship in Sao Paolo or in the south of Brazil. We just knew about the championship in Rio because I am from there. But Pele played for the national team and was a hero.
I am not White Pele. I am simply Zico.
An athlete needs to maintain a proper diet.
When God built Pele, he put everything that a player needs in him. He knew how to shoot, how to dribble, how to head, be physical. He had everything that a football player needs to have. It's difficult for someone to achieve what he has in football.
Neymar and Balotelli have the same problem. They spend too much time on their activities off the pitch.
Sometimes a team plays very well but doesn't manage to score, while another team comes and scores. But then, that's how football is.
It's bad when there are internal problems at the club - when people have doubts about you internally.
Difficulty is when you go to a place where the people don't like you, they put a burden on you like what happened to me in Olympiakos.
Maradona, if the ball came from his right, he would turn and would use his left foot, because he did not use his right. But he did use his right hand.
I respect the rules of the game.
In Brazil, U.S., Japan and some other countries, there are many sports being played and I hope that will be the case in India as well. Sports is good for the country.
Everything Maradona did, he did with a guy hanging on his neck during 90 minutes.
For me, the 1982 Brazil squad was the best, although we could not win the World Cup.
During practice sessions I try and bring every inch of my experience to show the players what to expect, what can happen, what to avoid so that the team can focus on what they have learnt during training sessions.
Sometimes you decide games, but you can't decide a competition. So, Messi's merit is not undone because he hasn't won a World Cup.
Considering Messi's quality and everything he represents, I don't think I've seen him playing with a guy following him around the pitch the entire time with the sole purpose of not letting him play.
I think the difference with Japan was that they didn't bring in too many foreign players. In my opinion at the ISL it's not too good to have too many foreigners playing. The minimum of five Indian players is too less in my opinion. Since it's the ISL, we have to encourage more Indian football.
A lot of people talk about what the 1982 team did on the pitch but that side was so dear to Brazilian fans also because it featured players that supporters would see in flesh and bone on a regular basis, either at games or even on the streets. Now they basically only see the Selecao on the TV.
I am thankful to Fenerbahce for the opportunity that they gave me and I believe that I repaid their faith with good work on the pitch.
Losing a game at home is never good.
It's hard for me to get to grips with how much players have changed since I retired. There are too many annoying habits; the kids are getting rich earlier and earlier, which brings a weird sense of entitlement.
When I went to Japan, I was with Kashima Antlers. Very good results were produced with that team as I aimed to develop Japanese football.
For me dialogue is as essential in football as in life. I like to talk to my players and I never impose anything, I always give them the chance to make their own choices.
I am not a magician of football.
You need to always try to find new challenges.
The ISL brought together many football cultures such as Italians, Dutch, French, English and Spanish. There were no Brazilians! I brought something from Brazil, a team of professionals that changed something.
Football is a collective sport and many times it doesn't depend on you playing well. It depends if the team is playing well.
Maradona is among the best five players I've ever seen: Garrincha, Pele, Diego, Cruijff and Beckenbauer.
I have always said that to manage Brazil I would have to be managing in Brazil first.
Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi never ever stop playing for the team. If I were young today, they are players on which I would mirror myself. Players of this level, play for the team. Players that are the best because they prepared themselves to bet You don't see these players going out, on social media, skipping training to be in parties.
I don't think Pele was the ultimate hero for our generation, he is the ultimate hero of every generation of Brazilians.
In my days, players were only thinking about publicity during holiday and on rest days.
Sometimes I make mistakes in my lineup. I don't make any mistakes to harm someone.
My father taught me to love Flamengo, which has always been my second home.
Brazilian boys as young as 14 and 15 are now based in Europe. They spend their best years in Europe and come back to Brazil when they are past their prime. This has destroyed local clubs and championships.
I wish I could help in a more substantial way, the football in India in a more global, national way.
I want to win all the time; even in a dice game I want to win.
I hope that all the Indian football players who will be with me under my coaching will show their talent and come out with great success.
With respect to Qatar as a country that wants to grow, you can't have a World Cup in a country that doesn't have football.
In Japan, when I went there, there was no professionalism at all. But the biggest advantage was that everyone was united and wanted to progress from amateur football to professional.
You can't win the World Cup without playing the big boys.
I am a Brazilian and only support our team.
Football is a collective game, not an individual game.
Everyone has the right to make mistakes.
Brazilian football has always been very much admired in Japan and, of course, after my participation and so many other Brazilians, it was like they created a new style of play in homage to Brazilian football.
India has a population of over 1 billion people. There is place for all sports and for sure there is space for football.
Ozil is a great player. He's the brain of the German national team.
In Japan, football has grown but it doesn't mean that baseball has regressed. Baseball also has grown with football.
I remember winning the Asian Cup in 2004 in China, coming through so much adversity including a final against the hosts. We won 3-1 and it was a wonderful competition, which we won by playing great football.
Arsene Wenger's mentality has been to bring together footballers who bring happiness in our sport, the type of players I like to watch. I've followed him since he was in Japan, and he always was a guardian of the art of football - football with happiness and football played well.
Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two players that, the way I see it, can have a spot amongst the best of all time.
Football never surpises me.
I've always done everything with love and dedication, thinking of the best for the club and the fans.
There is nothing wrong in losing with dignity, it is a part of the game.
I don't believe that politics has to be part of the sporting world.
Profit and fame will not develop Indian football. Professionals, technique development, legacy specialists, and experts in football business, will develop India as football country.
I don't know why everyone refers to me as White Pele. I don't like it.
Tactically, technically, physically, mentally he was the best. A lot of things that I learnt was from Pele's sticker albums: how to head, how to shoot the ball. It was like a step-by-step guide. I learnt from Pele as a kid.
Football always has pressure.
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