Johan Cruijff Quotes About Football
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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.
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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.
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Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.
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I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.
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The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
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Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.
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Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.
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You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.
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Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.
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Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.
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When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.
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I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
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For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.
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Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.
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To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent
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Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.
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Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.
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Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
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Every trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. I say don't run so much. Football is a game you play with your brain. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not too late.
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It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.
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For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.
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However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.
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Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
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After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.
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Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
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I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
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Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.
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