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Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.
Johan Cruijff
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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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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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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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If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
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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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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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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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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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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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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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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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I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
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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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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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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
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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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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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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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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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