Johan Cruijff Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Inspirational #Motivational #Soccer
“Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Change #Football #Mistake
“Every disadvantage has its advantage.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Sports #Advantage #Disadvantages
“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
“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
“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
“Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Soccer #Winning #Games
“There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Change #Football #Player
“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
“When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Change #Football #Player
“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.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Change #Football #Water
“There is only one ball, so you need to have it.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Change #Football #Needs
“We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Change #Football #Player
“If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Change #Football #Wanted
“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
“Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Change #Football #Player
“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
“Thereâ€™s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If youâ€™re not there, youâ€™re either too early or too late.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Too Late #Moments
“Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Football #Simple #Hardest
“It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Football #Winning #Simple
“Football is a game you play with your brain”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Football #Games #Play
“Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Soccer #Football #Simple
“The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Soccer #Football #Play
“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
“To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Teamwork #Winning #Goal
“The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Differences
“You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Score
“Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Motivational #Soccer #Running
“I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Soccer #Mistake
“Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.”
-- Johan Cruijff

#Soccer #Football #Simple

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