Johan Cruyff Quotes

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.

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.

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.

The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.

Some players when they become No. 1 they put too much pressure on themselves.

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

There are so many games that I've seen that I've learned from. I never - that's also part of the same - never single out a particular player or a particular game.

Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.

When I see Messi - who is the best player in the world in my opinion - lose the ball, he runs off until he gets it back or commits a foul. Our guys lose the ball and fold their arms.

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.

I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

If you lose a game, everyone asks why this player didn't play. If we win, nobody asks.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

You keep playing, you get a lead and build on it. People get mad when you keep playing, but that's part of the game, too.

To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.