Johan Quotes

#1. When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.

Ferran Adria

#2. Sometimes, Johan ... " He offered a self-deprecating grin. "It would be easier to forget the past." I understood, although I didn't know that he knew that. "Sometimes ... but without the past we wouldn't be who we are.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#3. And then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.

Archie Macpherson

#4. These 'anthropologists of peace' (who in fact are rather aggressive academics - the ethologist Johan van der Dennen calls them the Peace and Harmony Mafia.

Steven Pinker

#5. Sometimes if I have a big enough purse I'll bring my perfume or something. Right now I really like Beaute, it's by Johan B. and it's really nice, so I like that.

Julianne Hough

#6. Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart,

Johnny Giles

#7. 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.

David Winner

#8. Fighting's not a good idea, said Jon-Johan, and the other boys nodded, ending the discussion then and there, even though we girls probably lost some degree of respect for them on that occasion.

Janne Teller

#9. Arsene Wenger was talking about comparisons with Johan Cruyff, a player who only comes around every 10 years and Thierry Henry is definitely one of those

Gordon Strachan

#10. We're going to make a tunnel for that ship. We're going to make sure that little lady has every chance in the world to survive. If I get any trouble out of any of ya ... " he paused. "I'll handle it myself, do you understand?" Johan ... "Vital Perception

D.L. Given

#11. You can't make them shut up, but you can damn teach them a lesson. - Johan

Diyar Harraz

#12. You'll be civilized or we'll leave your arse here." Johan ... "Vital Perception

D.L. Given

#13. Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.

Johan Oscar Smith

#14. It's a great feeling for me just to put my uniform on and be part of my team.

Johan Santana

#15. Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.

Johan Cruijff

#16. William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

Johan Huizinga

#17. I'm having fun and I'm not even trying to do much. Everything is coming together.

Johan Santana

#18. You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Johan Huizinga

#19. There's only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you're not there, you're either too early or too late.

Johan Cruijff

#20. Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.

Johan Huizinga

#21. I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans.

Johan Lindeberg

#22. Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs

Johan Cruijff

#23. It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

Johan Huizinga

#24. Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

Johan Cruijff

#25. For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world ... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.

Johan Cruijff

#26. He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.

Johan Cruijff

#27. A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday.

Johan Norberg

#28. I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.

Johan Cruyff

#29. Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

Johan Cruijff

#30. After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.

Johan Cruijff

#31. If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

Johan Huizinga

#32. Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend

Carl Johan Calleman

#33. Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Johan Huizinga

#34. Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.

Johan Galtung

#35. My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Johan Cruyff

#36. I mean, coming into this season I was just hoping to come back, stay healthy and help the team.

Johan Santana

#37. When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.

Johan Santana

#38. It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

Johan Cruijff

#39. I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

Johan Cruijff

#40. We have found that the values of the constants of nature have not been fine-tuned for life by accident, but that these values are constrained by and logically follow from the fundamental space-time organization of the Cosmic Tree of Life.

Carl Johan Calleman

#41. I knew that the Mets had never had a no-hitter. I never had one. This is very special. I knew this means a lot to New York.

Johan Santana

#42. The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

Johan Huizinga

#43. I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job is to go deep into the game. When you get strikeouts, you throw a lot of pitches and sometimes you come out early.

Johan Santana

#44. I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

Johan Santana

#45. We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

Johan Huizinga

#46. From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

Johan Huizinga

#47. I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.

Johan Santana

#48. There is only one ball, so you need to have it.

Johan Cruijff

#49. We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

Johan Cruijff

#50. When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

Johan Cruijff

#51. Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Johan Huizinga

#52. The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

Johan Huizinga

#53. A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Johan Huizinga

#54. By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

Johan Galtung

#55. There's times when one play makes the whole difference, one calls makes the whole difference. And tonight it was that call.

Johan Santana

#56. The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Johan Huizinga

#57. Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

Johan Cruijff

#58. What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Johan Huizinga

#59. James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!

Johan Oscar Smith

#60. If I wanted you to understand, I would explain it better.

Johan Cruyff

#61. The outlaw, the revolutionary, the cabbalist or member of a secret society, indeed heretics of all kinds are of a highly associative if not sociable disposition, and a certain element of play is prominent in all their doings.

Johan Huizinga

#62. A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

Johan Huizinga

#63. I think it's great to use fashion to develop your personality and express who you really are.

Johan Lindeberg

#64. No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

Johan Huizinga

#65. Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

Johan Cruyff

#66. The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

Johan Bruyneel

#67. Shit happens. And then you move on.

Johan Harstad

#68. Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

Johan Norberg

#69. Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

Johan Cruyff

#70. There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

Johan Huizinga

#71. Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

Johan Cruijff

#72. Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.

Johan Cruijff

#73. The writer's job is to arouse emotions. The stronger the emotions the better.

Johan Fundin

#74. If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Johan Huizinga

#75. In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Johan Huizinga

#76. Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of aesthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.

Johan Huizinga

#77. An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Johan Huizinga

#78. Moral writing is boring.

Johan Van Wyk

#79. Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

Johan Norberg

#80. In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.

Johan Coetzer

#81. To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

Johan Cruijff

#82. Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now."

Johan Cruijff

#83. It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

Johan Cruijff

#84. Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Johan Huizinga

#85. You only live a short time ... and you are dead a long time.

Johan Huizinga

#86. Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

Johan Cruijff

#87. History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

Johan Huizinga

#88. One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.

Johan Cruyff

#89. Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.

Johan Cruijff

#90. Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

Johan Cruyff

#91. Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.

Johan Huizinga

#92. These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Johan Huizinga

#93. We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

Johan Huizinga

#94. I noticed that the crowds in the US seem to do a lot more moshing than European fans. But it's also different from venue to venue and really hard to say.

Johan Hegg

#95. The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Johan Huizinga

#96. The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

Johan Huizinga

#97. Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.

Johan Galtung

#98. Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

Johan Lindeberg

#99. The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

Johan Cruijff

#100. To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

Johan Cruyff