My top 20

1.

„Some people think football is a fight to the death. I don't like that attitude. I assure you: It is far more serious “

(Bill Shankly, former Liverpool FC coach)

2.

"The fastest player is the ball."

(Sepp Herberger, former German national coach)

3.

„At a football match, however, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposing team “

(Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher) 

4.

"After the game is before the game." “

(Sepp Herberger, former German national coach)

5.

„If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball – shoot it into the goal and we'll discuss the alternatives later “

(Bob Paisley, former Liverpool FC coach)

6.

"The situation is hopeless, but not critical."

(Stefan Effenberg)

7.

„The key to success is to realise that no one can succeed alone “

(Pele, Brazilian football star)

8.

"Every disadvantage has its advantage."

(Johann Cruyff, former Dutch international)

9.

"I never make predictions and never will."

(Paul Gascoigne, former England international)

10.

"After the game is before the game."

(Sepp Herberger)

11.

"He doesn't necessarily have to run where I go."

(Neven Subotic, BVB Dortmund)

12.

"I'm actually quite different, but unfortunately I don't have any time at all."

(Berti Vogts)

13.

„Some have spoken of a pretty good game. It makes me wonder whether I need to see an eye doctor or an ear doctor “

(Andreas Möller, former German international, BVB Dortmund)

14.

„I don't want to be a monument, only the pigeons shit on it “

(Toni Polster, former Austrian international, 1. FC Köln)

15.

"That's football. Sometimes the better team wins."

(Lukas Podolski, former German international, 1. FC Köln, FC Bayern München)

16.

"Whomn If we don't win here, we'll at least kick their lawns to pieces “ 

(Rolf Rüssmann)

17.

„One word led to another. We had nothing to say to each other “

(Lothar Matthäus, former German international, FC Bayern Munich)

18.

"If we have the ball, the others can't score."

(Johann Cruyff, former Dutch international)

19.

„The German players only stop fighting when they are on the bus “

(Ronal Koeman, former Dutch international, FC Barcelona) 

20.

"Liver goes weida!"

(Dragoslav Stepanovic)

Addition

Nobody

has the simplicity of the game

described better than him:

Johan Cruyff

1.

"Find the best player for each position and you don't have a strong eleven, you have eleven strong ones."

2.

"Toofall is logical."

3.

"Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality are boring."

4.

"Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes fewer mistakes wins."

5.

"Every disadvantage has its advantage."

6. 

„Technique does not mean being able to hold the ball up 1000 times – then you can go to the circus. Technique means getting the ball into the right place with one contact and the right speed.to pass the foot of your team-mate “

7. 

„I would prefer to be in a group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. That would get rid of two of my rivals. That's my thinking “

8. 

„Playing football is easy, but playing simple football is the hardest thing of all “