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I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
Johan Cruijff
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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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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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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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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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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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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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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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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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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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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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Coincidence is logical.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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