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There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.
Johan Cruijff
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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.
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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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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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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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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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Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
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YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.
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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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It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
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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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Without the ball, you can't win.
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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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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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If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
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Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.
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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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If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.
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