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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.

Johan Cruijff

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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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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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Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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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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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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The ball is an essential part of the game.
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Coincidence is logical.
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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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YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.
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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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