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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.

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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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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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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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I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.
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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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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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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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I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.
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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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The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
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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.'
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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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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Without the ball, you can't win.
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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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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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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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