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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.
Johan Cruyff
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I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic.
Johan Cruyff -
There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring. In the tactical area, I think I just have more than most other players.
Johan Cruyff -
The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.
Johan Cruyff -
I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I needed to study for four years. I told them they were crazy. Who is going to study for four years? How is someone going to teach me technical things when I know more than they do?
Johan Cruyff -
Van Gaal has a good vision of football, but it is not mine. He wants to gel winning teams and has a militaristic way of working with his tactics. I want individuals to think for themselves.
Johan Cruyff -
It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.
Johan Cruyff
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There is no greater medal than to be acclaimed for your style.
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Barça wanted to get rid of him Guardiola. They considered him scrawny, bad defensively and ineffective in the air. What nobody saw was that he had the basic qualities to go far: he had game intelligence, speed in his execution, technique. If I hadn't been at Barcelona, for sure he would have been sold to a Segunda Division club.
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Without the ball, you can't win.
Johan Cruyff -
Football is a game you play with your mind.
Johan Cruyff -
We showed the world you could enjoy being a footballer; you could laugh and have a fantastic time. I represent the era which proved that attractive football was enjoyable and successful, and good fun to play too.
Johan Cruyff -
Right now, I have the feeling that I am 2-0 up in the first half of a match that has not finished yet. But I am sure that I will end up winning.
Johan Cruyff
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Who am I supporting? I am Dutch but I support the football that Spain is playing. Spain's style is the style of Barcelona. Spain, a replica of Barça, is the best publicity for football.
Johan Cruyff -
To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.
Johan Cruyff -
The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It's their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.
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Winning is an important thing, but to have your own style, to have people copy you, to admire you, that is the greatest gift.
Johan Cruyff -
The main problem in Britain is that there are too many competitions and too many games. There is no time to prepare properly for Europe or to introduce new ideas because there is far too much emphasis on domestic football.
Johan Cruyff -
All these countries like Holland and Scotland, they create their own problems. They are always complaining, but they don't solve anything. Don't look at what you don't have; look at what you can create.
Johan Cruyff
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Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.
Johan Cruyff -
If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.
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When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.
Johan Cruyff -
Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
Johan Cruyff