Johan Cruijff Quotes
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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.
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He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.
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YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.
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When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.
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The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.
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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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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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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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If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.
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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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Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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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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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
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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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It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
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A counter-attack can only arise when you make a mistake. That's why there are rules. A horizontal pass? Prohibited. In my line-up there are as many lines as possible. Because you must have the option to pass the ball forward, even if it's a meter. Because then I can still make up for the loss of possession. After a horizontal pass this is impossible.
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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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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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