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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

Johan Cruijff

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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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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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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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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 always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
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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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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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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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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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Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.
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If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.
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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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YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.
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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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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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The ball is an essential part of the game.
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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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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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