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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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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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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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Every trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. I say don't run so much. Football is a game you play with your brain. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not 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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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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The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
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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 know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.
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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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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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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.
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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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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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He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.
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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.
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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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Coincidence is logical.
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