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I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

Johan Cruijff

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Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.
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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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Without the ball, you can't win.
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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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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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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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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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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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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.
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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 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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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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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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He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.
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Every advantage has its disadvantage.
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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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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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I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
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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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