117 Quotes by Johan Cruijff

I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn’t kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

Football is simple, you’re either on time, or you’re too late. If you’re too late then you have to leave earlier.

Football is a game you play with your brain.

Players that aren’t true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

I’m not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.

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

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

Without the ball, you can’t win.

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