Johan Cruijff Quotes - Page 2

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• There is only one ball, so you need to have it.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Needs

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Team, Play, Two

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• Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

  Johan Cruijff

  Motivational, Soccer, Running

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Religious

  "Johan Cruyff and the End of an Era" by Prof. Cas Mudde, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2016.

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Mistake, Loss, Counter Attack

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• In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Space, Acting

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Games, Giving

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• Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Mistake, Games

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• The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.

  Johan Cruijff

  Differences, Five

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• To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Needs, Want

  "The 'Other' Football: A fond farewell to a 'Total' legend of the game, Johan Cruyff" by Justin Saj, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2016.

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Sports, Football, Home

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• Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Winning, Games

  "'You play football with your head, and your legs are there to help you': Johan Cruyff in quotes", www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2016.

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• I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

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  Soccer, Mistake, Hard

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• If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'

  Johan Cruijff

  Running, Player, Two

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Nice

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• Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now."

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  Soccer, Team, Hard Work

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• In a way I'm probably immortal.

  Johan Cruijff

  Way, Immortal

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• He deserves ten out of ten for doing what he does. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. He must know when to move the ball on quickly and when to try the impossible mission. When he learns this, he won't win a single Golden Ball, but an entire collection.

  Johan Cruijff

  Moving, Winning, Trying

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• Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

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  Change, Football, Mistake

  "Courts open the talent floodgates" by Michael Butcher and Simon Evans, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 1999.

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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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  Change, Football, Player

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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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  Football, Children, Winning

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• There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

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  Change, Football, Player

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• Without the ball, you can't win.

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  Winning, Balls, Can't Win

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

  Leo Messi's Twitter page, March 24, 2016.

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• Every advantage has its disadvantage.

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  Soccer, Advantage, Disadvantages

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