Johan Cruyff Quotes

We try each and every week to win. We know what's at stake, but every coach has that mindset, so it's not easy.

Always, at a big team, there's very hard competition.

As a player you always feel the pressure and as a team you are always trying to make sure the opposition are under it.

If the offensive player starts losing confidence, that gets the defender's confidence up - and I think the team can feel it.

Obviously, I don't want to be a sub, so I will just keep working hard in training. It's not that easy for me as a sub to come on with tempo.

That is one of the problems big teams face - their rivals always take the field very motivated, and I say this from experience.

I just feel like when I come up against another team, I'll always look at their best players and I'll think, if I can stop these doing what they are doing, then I'll get noticed and I'll help the team as well.

I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes.

Football is so intense you don't have time to sit back and look at what you have achieved.

I think when I came into the league, I had to find something that would keep me around. I knew I wasn't going to get the ball a lot, being the younger guy on my team. I knew I wasn't going to play a lot unless I made some sort of impact on the floor. I wasn't the best shot blocker, so I said, 'Let's be the best rebounder the league has ever seen.'

Villarreal is a difficult place to go, and if you want to win there, you have to play very hard and very well.

The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.

There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.

I always want to think of myself as an underdog.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

I love football.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

Soccer is a magical game.

I feel like in order for our team to have the upper hand, I have to play extremely well, and I have to bring the rest of the team with me. That's how I feel approaching every game.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.