Pelé: What are you most proud of?

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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions

Vogue's 73 Questions repeatedly asks respondents to select the work, relationship, or achievement that makes them proudest.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Pelé said elsewhere, not written here

At that time nobody had Brazil on the map and suddenly Brazil became a huge football nation. I was very proud because I made Brazil well known all over the world.

The Talks interview, 7 August 2013 source ↗

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Martinus Veltman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the quantum structure of electroweak interactions

It will continue and it is due to something which I am very proud to say I invented. ... In 1975 I was asked to become a member of CERN’s scientific policy committee, that committee advises the council of CERN as to what they should do in the future concerning physics. ... we cannot go all the times through the traumatising experience of fighting for a new accelerator, making it and then fall back and so on, so I came to the concept of a constant budget.

Recorded Per Carlson and Jasmina Cirgic, Nobelprize.org interview, The Nobel Prize, December 1999 source ↗

Bong Joon-ho Film director and screenwriter

I wanted to create a very delicate and detailed film where you would feel like you could even smell every single character.

Recorded The Talks interview, 12 February 2020 source ↗

Cris Cyborg Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer; world champion across four major promotions

We were training hard saying one day the opportunity is going to come and we're going to be ready to show that girls can fight. And I had the opportunity to show this - not just for me, but to give the opportunity to other women.

Recorded Paul Battison, BBC Sport interview before PFL Tampa, 21 August 2026 source ↗

Daron Acemoglu Economist; Nobel laureate in economic sciences for work on institutions and prosperity

I’m proud of all my heritages, and I’m delighted that I have been able to learn from many different experiences.

Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, The Nobel Prize, October 2024 source ↗