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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 play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
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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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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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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 trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. I say don't run so much. Football is a game you play with your brain. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not 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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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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Without the ball, you can't win.
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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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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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It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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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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The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
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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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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
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Every advantage has its disadvantage.
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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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