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Johan Cruijff
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The ball is an essential part of the game.
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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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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 you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
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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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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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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
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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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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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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
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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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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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Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them. (when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan)
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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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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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One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.
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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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I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.
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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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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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