Johan Cruijff Quotes

I still have a lot of room for improvement.

Without the ball, you can't win.

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

There is only one ball, so you need to have it.

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

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.

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

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.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

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