Football

Obnoxious twerp he may be, but one of the greatest players of all time, and almost certainly one of the greatest interview subjects of all time.

A few amongst many quotes:

**Before I make a mistake, I see it coming and then don’t make it.

**I can manage pretty well in all aspects of the game. Kicking the ball is the least important one.

And everyone's all-time favourite:

**Listen, if I wanted you to understand it all, I would have explained it better…

**Many more here

Cruijff is a bit of an enigma, nobody knows if he's for real or whether he's completely bonkers. One of my favourite ones is:
"Football is a simple game, you just have to score one more goal than your opponent"
or
"To play simple is the most difficult way to play"

in Dutch they call this Cruijffiaans.

one more that I liked when he was questioned by a journalist on his lack of speed: "You know what the problem is with you journalists, you tend to confuse speed with reading the game, when I anticipate my runs earlier it makes me look quicker.