A Quote by Johan Cruijff

In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

Johan Cruijff

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Defender First Teams

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Johan Cruijff
Dutch - Soccer player
April 25, 1947 - March 24, 2016

The strikers are the first defenders. And the first defender is the first striker to build from the back.

David Luiz

If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'

Johan Cruijff

I'm a defender first and foremost, and if I'm playing right centre-half, I am even more of a defender than the wing-backs.

Kyle Walker

I have to remember I am a defender first and do my job there first and foremost.

Ali Krieger

Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

Abby Wambach

It could be the best defender or the worst defender. I have to have the attitude that I don't think anyone is going to deter me from getting to the basket. Maybe help defense can come over and affect it, but not the first guy.

Brandon Ingram

I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back : with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

Xavi

I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

Xavi

I like that defender-versus-striker battle, that challenge.

Sergio Ramos

When I was a kid, I was a striker. Then, I started to be a winger and defender sometimes.

Cesar Azpilicueta

My first idol was a Swedish goalie, Peter Lindmark.

Henrik Lundqvist

Ronaldinho and I are two totally different players. He is an attacker and I'm a defender, so there is no comparison. I did not feel any pressure, because I love to play my own style.

Cafu

I wasn't a natural defender. I was a striker as a kid. I have learned a lot but there is more to learn, of course.

Micah Richards

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.

Samuel Smiles

When I was in the GB Women's football team at the 2012 Olympics, it was obvious who was in the first XI and who was making up the numbers. Kelly Smith was going to be first-choice striker no matter what, and the other forwards in the squad mentally checked out as a result.