After you’ve won something, you’re no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. That is what determines wether you’re a good player or not.ġ3. 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. Before I make a mistake, I don’t make that mistake.ġ2. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.ġ1. There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.ġ0. What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.ĩ. Players that aren’t true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.Ĩ. I’m ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president.
I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.ħ. Why couldn’t you beat a richer club? I’ve never seen a bag of money score a goal.Ħ. In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.ĥ. Choose the best player for every position, and you’ll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1’s.Ĥ. Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that’s the player people think is great. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.Ģ. Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. The 25 quotes below, taken from throughout Cruyff’s days as a player, then coach, then pundit, offer a window into the way Cruyff sees soccer-and they just might change the way you see the game.ġ. He may seem arrogant, but that’s only because he thinks he knows everything.
So when Cruyff talks, people listen.Ī Cruyff quote grabs your attention not just for its insight, but also for the supreme certainty with which he delivers it. It was Cruyff’s vision on the field that made him one of the greatest players of all time-seeing passes that no one else could see, but also being aware of the ebb and flow of a game and knowing how to control it. Johan Cruyff has a very special way of looking at soccer, and an equally distinctive way of talking about it.
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