Johan Cruyff quotes:

I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.

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

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

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.

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

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

Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted to tackle this problem with someone from the same background who had come through it. And that was Edgar Davids. During one of our fights, I pointed that out to him. But it had nothing to do with his skin colour.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

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

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

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.