Johan Cruijff Quotes About Team

Quotes about: Team

• 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

• There's not one club in Europe with an anthem like You'll Never Walk Alone. There's not one club in the world so united with their fans. I sat there watching the Liverpool fans and they sent shivers down my spine. A mass of 40,000 people became one force behind their team. That's something not many teams have. For that I admire Liverpool more than anything.

  Johan Cruijff

  Team, Europe, People

• 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

• 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."

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Team, Hard Work

• In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Team

  "Johan Cruyff: Former Real Madrid President Ramon Calderon Pays Tribute To A ‘Visionary’" by Ramon Calderon, www.newsweek.com. March 24, 2016.

• When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.

  Johan Cruijff

  Team, Play, Two

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