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“I believe that love is the most important thing we can take from life, because everything else passes. … Love! Love! Love!”

Source: Farewell speech at Giants Stadium, New Jersey, 1 October 1977

Context At his farewell match at Giants Stadium, where he played a half each for the New York Cosmos and Santos, he addressed a crowd of some 75,000 and asked them to chant with him.

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