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

Johan Cruijff

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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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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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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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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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Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
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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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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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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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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.
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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.
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Coincidence is logical.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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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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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
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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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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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