Johan Cruyff's best phrases

"Winning for the sake of winning, no. I don't like it. You never know if you are playing well or badly, but you can always enjoy," Cruyff said on more than one occasion. 

One of the characteristics of Cruyff's play was to have the ball for as long as possible: "You have pleasure if the ball does what you want it to do. If I have it, they don't have it, so there is no problem or at least there are less problems. It is basically about two things. If you want to go on the attack you have to dominate play and you can only dominate play if you have the ball."

"60% of being the Barcelona coach is the battles, all the negative stuff and the press and 40% of it is enjoyment," he said in another famous phrase of his. 

"I don't come from a mentality where the result is the only thing. The main thing is the technique, the domination of the ball. What I always like is to have the ball to dominate and do what I want to do on the pitch. I never adapt to others," was another of his phrases. 

"The goalkeeper is the person responsible for the ball not going in the goal. How? I am not bothered, but he has do that," he said about the role of goalkeepers. 

"I don't feel at ease and what I'm doing is I'm leaving. I have a contract and what I am doing is not fulfilling it," he said when put an end to his time as Barca coach. 

He also had praise for Messi: "The most beautiful thing about Messi is that he change his opinion three times over the course of a metre."

"You always have to admit that football is a game of mistakes, therefore you can always improve," was another of his phrases.

"You have to die for your ideas and the most important thing is to have a good time," a phrase that is still applicable in today's football.