23 Johan Cruyff Quotes for You to Enjoy

Johan Cruyff

Dutch Athlete

Born: Apr 25, 1947

Died: Mar 24, 2016

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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. Johan Cruyff

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How can you create a team and bring all these egos together? The main goal for Manchester United is for them to play well - and not have a player saying, 'I play well; I scored two goals'. Because if I score two goals, but three goals go into our net, then we lose. Johan Cruyff

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To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent. Johan Cruyff

You Win More Opponent Goal Score Than Your

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. Johan Cruyff

You Heart Money Big Enjoy Everybody See Percentage Small Could Big Difference Maybe Difference Wants Themselves Barcelona Use Your Play

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. Johan Cruyff

Teacher You Three Drive Approach Take Football Putt Looks After Golf Coach Coaches Specialist Play Player Players

Football is a game you play with your mind. Johan Cruyff

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I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge. Johan Cruyff

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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches. Johan Cruyff

Important More Footballers Trained Than Coaches Street

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

Lost Other Football Identity Cultures Romance Influence Fantastic English English Football

Without the ball, you can't win. Johan Cruyff

You Win Without Ball

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. Johan Cruyff

Sad Beautiful Game Money Most Beautiful Problems Values Everywhere About Football Most Because Within Now Play Street

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

Good Vision Think Mine Way Van Gel Tactics Winning Football He Individuals His Want Wants Themselves Working Teams

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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Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy. Johan Cruyff

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I always use the basic quality of people to achieve what I want to achieve. That's a different way of thinking. I always love that they do things. And when it goes wrong, well, try to correct it in one way or another. Johan Cruyff

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

Control Back Way Press Ball Get Defending

Coaching courses are still much too theoretical, and this is what you see reflected in the basic technical skills of the average player. I even see things deteriorating. Johan Cruyff

You Too See Deteriorating Courses Still Reflected Average Much Coaching Skills Theoretical Even Technical Basic Things Player

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. Johan Cruyff

You Youth Say Further Those Tournaments Well Came Were Than Get Much English International Teams Started Playing

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