"You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score."
"Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake."
"Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins."
"I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic."
"The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It's their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy."
"Coincidence is logical."
"Every disadvantage has its advantage."
"I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet."
"I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw."
"Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them."
"Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."
"Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen."
"Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster."
"To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent."
"Without the ball, you can't win."
"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."
"Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise."
"The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me."
"My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society."
"Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted to tackle this problem with someone from the same background who had come through it. And that was Edgar Davids. During one of our fights, I pointed that out to him. But it had nothing to do with his skin colour."
"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."
"Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches."
"When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That's why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly."
"If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players."
"It's like everything in football - and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It's very simple in the end."
