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Checkout quotes by Johan Cruyff on Football

• ‟ Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

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• ‟ It's like everything in football - and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It's very simple in the end.

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• ‟ Football is a game you play with your mind.

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• ‟ Football should never be a worry. It should be exciting. When a child plays football outside, he doesn't need to worry. Professionals should be the same.

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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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• ‟ For years, we have had many coaches in football, but there are no teachers anymore. And you see that in the play itself.

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• ‟ The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.

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• ‟ My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

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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.

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