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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

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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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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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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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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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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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If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.
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Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.
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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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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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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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Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
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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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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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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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Every advantage has its disadvantage.
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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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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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