Johan Cruijff Quotes - Page 3

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

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Simple

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Play, Offensive

  "Cruyff Says 4-5-1 Is a Sign of Bunker Mentality" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2005.

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• 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

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Running, Games, Play

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• Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

  Johan Cruijff

  Important, Streets, Footballer

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• 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

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• The ball is an essential part of the game.

  Johan Cruijff

  Games, Essentials, Balls

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Simple, Too Late

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• I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

  Johan Cruijff

  Thieves, Want, Wallets

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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.

  Johan Cruijff

  Beautiful, Kids, Play

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

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Play

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• I still have a lot of room for improvement.

  Johan Cruijff

  Rooms, Improvement, Room For Improvement

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

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Winning, Simple

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• One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.

  Johan Cruijff

  Hero, Two, Levels

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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

  Limits, Logic, I Can

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• Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.

  Johan Cruijff

  Beats, Loses

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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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  Moving, People, Balls

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• 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

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• Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Mistake, Effort

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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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  Change, Football, Thinking

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• Coincidence is logical.

  Johan Cruijff

  Coincidence, Logical

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• He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.

  Johan Cruijff

  Winning, Goalkeepers, Outstanding

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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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  Change, Football, Water

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• 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.

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  Soccer, Football, Strong

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