Johan Cruyff Quotes

You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball's going to bounce to.

Over the years, you get better at timing because you've been through the situations thousands of times. The ball goes over your head; he passes you on the right, left. Eventually, you just know what you have to do.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

Things move so quickly on set. When you're about to do another take and you have a minute to figure out what you're doing, you just kind of determine how you're going to do it on the spot.

I played Futebol de Salão for many years and it helped me to become the player I am today. There you don't have time to think, you are always tightly marked and you develop a sense for performing in small spaces.

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast

I'm in a profession where if you're planning more than six months ahead, you're doing it wrong!

I'm able to be able to achieve certain things that others aren't - whether it's a reaction time or the idea of a coffee that's about to be spilled and I'm able to grab it before anyone else or whatever it is.

When we're playing, I really shape my body to receive the ball - even before it gets to me.

I think that football has changed, it has become more complex. For example, it's faster, you have less free space, and you have to play from such small spaces.

You have half a second to make your mind up to know if you're going to shoot, pass, drive. Don't hold the ball too long, and make your decision quick.

I'm fast. I feel like I can feel things before the play starts. I think my reactions are quick. I think I have great vision. So, I use those.

It's a fast game, and you've got to play fast.

When you play eleven a side, you might go through a game with very few touches, but with street football, you're always involved in the game, so it is a great way to improve your skill and to learn how to create and use space, as the pitch is very small.

Football doesn't depend just on your brain. It's not like on a computer. It depends on your body, too, and sometimes you are tired. Sometimes the opponent closes the space very well and marks you very well. Football depends on many things, not just on you.

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

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

I move very well. Being able to go at different types of players, that's where I have an advantage.