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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.
Johan Cruijff
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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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It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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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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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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The ball is an essential part of the game.
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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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If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
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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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Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.
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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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He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.
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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 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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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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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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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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