Johan Cruyff Quotes

I had a lot of dealings with Bergkamp. I started with the under-17s at Ajax, and he was the assistant coach. Once or twice a week, we had individual one-to-one training sessions. You just watched Bergkamp. When you see him in training, he had skills that a guy just shouldn't be allowed to have.

I'm really good at football.

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.

Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.

I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.

But my biggest passion is football.

I found an instructor, Chris O'Connell, who helped me. He turned me into the player I am today - a consistent golfer.

I hate touch football.

I think what African football needs is better organization, better structure, and I think, after that, we'll help the players to be more professional when they're coming to play for their national team.

I want to play the football I feel.

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

We do a thing here at Arkansas that we teach Football IQ and call it 'Hogonese.' They are classes year-round where we get our guys better at the language and culture we want in our program.

I'd call myself a street footballer, that's where I learned my tricks, and through football I looked at the big players, I think it really helped me.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.

I want to play as much football as I can.

I like football, and I like good players.

I played for Barcelona, for Ajax, where it's important to develop and integrate young talent.

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

I'm a football fanatic. I love the game of football. I love learning new things, and I love being taught things. So I try to learn as much as I can, and even at a young age, I was really focused on how to be better and trying to learn all the techniques.

Well, I wanted to play football and I chased football for a little while.

I don't want to coach in the NFL.

It's difficult when you start to play football. My boots were much worse.

I'd been coaching since the end of my playing career, first with England's Under 21s, then Manchester United, and finally, in Spain with Valencia.

I had zero opportunity to play football over the years.