176 Quotes by Frank Rijkaard

When it's a clash between two big teams, you know your players will concentrate.

How can you judge a man until you come face to face?

My aim is to get the team to work hard and stay strong together.

There is a part of football I would describe as 'serious' and one part I would describe as more 'playful,' i.e. more technical.

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

The goal is always to win.

I am completely uninterested in playing beautiful football if the team doesn't win.

I made Edgar Davids vice-captain. Nothing to do with colour, just because he was playing excellently and because he lives like an athlete.

After your career, you go to matches, and you see so many unnecessary goals because a person is just looking where the ball is and not his opponent. Well, a ball alone has never scored a goal.