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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

Johan Cruijff

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When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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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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Without the ball, you can't win.
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The ball is an essential part 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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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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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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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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Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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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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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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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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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 always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
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I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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