Johan Cruijff Quotes About Football

Quotes about: Football

• Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

  Johan Cruijff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Team

• 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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Ajax

• 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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Balls

  "The Other Football: A fond farewell to a 'Total' legend of the game, Johan Cruyff" by Justin Saj, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2016.

• 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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Too Late

• 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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Nice

• Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Simple

• 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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Games, Play

  "Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football". Book by David Winner, 2000.

• If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Soccer, Football

  "'You play football with your head, and your legs are there to help you': Johan Cruyff in quotes", www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2016.

• Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Mistake, Winning

• Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Mistake

  "Courts open the talent floodgates" by Michael Butcher and Simon Evans, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 1999.

• Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Mistake

• Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Goal

• The fun part of golf is the variety of shots. In football you can do anything with a ball, but you can do anything with a golf ball as well. When you hit a shot and the ball does exactly what you want it to do ... that's wonderful. It's just great when you hit the ball well. You should always try not to make the ball cry.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Fun, Golf

• It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Winning, Simple

• The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Play

• To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent

  Johan Cruijff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork

• 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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Strong

• However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Team

• Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Simple

• Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Simple

• I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Sorry

• 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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

• What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Sports, Football

• 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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Thinking

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