Johan Cruijff Quotes about Soccer

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

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."

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

Every advantage has its disadvantage.

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.

You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.

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

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