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

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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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If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
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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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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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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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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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Every advantage has its disadvantage.
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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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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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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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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're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.
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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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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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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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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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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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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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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.
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