Johan Cruyff Quotes
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The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.
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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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That December 1992, we Barça lost the Intercontinental Cup match against São Paulo 2–1. It was one of the few times that I had no problems with a defeat. I've always admired the Brazilian coach Telê Santana for his vision, because it always displayed a genuine love of football.
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I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.
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I like technical players who can also think in terms of the team's interests. I've already mentioned Iniesta and Xavi, who disprove entirely the theory that only physically strong footballers with a lot of running ability can play in their positions.
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Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.
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Sadly, they played very dirty. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style... If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they lost.
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Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.
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Everybody could use the money, but you don't play for it - you play with your heart - and that's a big difference you see in Barcelona. Everybody wants to play there; everybody wants to enjoy themselves. It's maybe a small percentage, but maybe it's the difference.
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.
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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.
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It hurts me that Holland chose an ugly path to aim for the title.
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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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I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
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When I was playing in the Ajax youth teams - when I was, say, 14, 15 - you started to get all those international youth tournaments. All those English teams came. Well, the English were much further than we were.
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It's unbelievable. I changed the way Barcelona played. Now, Spain have had to change.
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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
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In the Premier League, the money is a problem, but I don't really know how to control it.
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Every disadvantage has its advantage.
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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. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That's why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly.
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If you look at other countries, you see they have different values: defend more, pass the ball out more, winning is holy. In England, you could say that sport itself is holy. They say, 'Look, guys, it's about more than just winning.'
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Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.