My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

- Dada Maravilha

There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.

- Dada Maravilha

I do not play football, I score goals.

- Dada Maravilha

There's no such thing as an ugly goal. Ugly is to not score one.

- Dada Maravilha