David Winner Quotes

#1. The defender must first think defensively, but he must also think offensively. For an attacker it is the other way around. Somewhere they meet.

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#2. Short, dark, and slight, he looks simultaneously middle-aged and prepubescent, a little worse for wear in any case with his black hair matted like a street cat and his eyes crusted over and bleary.

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#3. I have this instinct for knowing when a defence is going to relax, or when a defender will make a mistake,' he once said. 'Something inside me says, Gerd, go this way; Gerd, go that. I don't know what it is.' A killer who claimed to hear voices. Serial goalscorer.

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#4. God made the world, but the Dutch made Holland.

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#5. It should have been the epiphany of the sixties. Instead it turned out to be its requiem,

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#6. Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports.

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