117 Quotes by Johan Cruijff

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

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

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

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

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

Before I made a mistake, I did not make that mistake.

I still have a lot of room for improvement.

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.

After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.