A Quote by Johan Cruyff
Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.
I'm a street footballer and you still get street footballers from Africa, South Africa and really poor parts of Europe.
In my own opinion, psychology in football is far more important than anyone believes, including the coaches.
Learning from the best is easy and it isn't just footballers, coaches should also learn.
I think it's important for us, as a team, to know each other. Know our teammates and our coaches. To interact with them is more important than to be 'liked' by whoever on Chatrun.
A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when you're 9 and have to beat a 14-year-old on the dribble. Or if you get knocked out and have to sit on the side and come on.
You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.
One reason I've had success is that I try to think of everyone around me as more important than myself - teammates, coaches, equipment guys, everybody.
In the NBA, you have a better diet and strength coaches to make you better physically. And the number of coaches, it makes me feel like there's more of them than us players.
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
For us as coaches, we're in a different locker room. So we're coming in pregame, halftime. They spend a lot more time in that locker room than coaches.
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