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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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YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.
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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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Coincidence is logical.
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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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Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
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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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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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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 still have a lot of room for improvement.
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.
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Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.
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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 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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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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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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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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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 difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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