Quotes by Edgar Davids - Page 2

Street football features all the basics of football: you get a lot of touches on the ball, it is fast, teaches you to think quickly and to be creative.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Basics
Features
Teaches
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Ancelotti has managed a lot of big clubs, and I think he would do well at Madrid because Juventus, Milan, Chelsea, and Paris Saint-Germain are big clubs.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Chelsea
Clubs
Madrid
Milan
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I think everybody can say that Luis Suarez is a very good player. He's scored so many goals in the Premier League, and he is definitely a quality player.
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Premier League
Premier
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I have my own brand called Monta, including a specially designed street soccer ball made out of a denim material which fades like your old jeans when used.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Fades
Jeans
Soccer
Designed
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Anything is possible, and if an opportunity turned up, and it was under the right circumstances, I would love to come back to England in a coaching capacity.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Anything Is Possible
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You see, in the fashion industry, everybody either knows each other or is linked to one another. If you're not part of their inner circle, things can be hard.
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Fashion Industry
Linked
Circle
Inner
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The truth hurts, and not everyone can deal with it. Every player is different, but they are all entitled to the truth. It is up to them if they can handle it or not.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Entitled
Handle
Hurts
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The guy I cater my clothes to wants to be different without going overboard. So we sell many classic silhouettes with unique details to avoid things from getting ordinary.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Classic
Details
Ordinary
Overboard
Be Different
Cater
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You need to beat a defender when you have the ball. You need to be able to successfully pass to a team-mate, and there are other attributes needed to be the complete player.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Attributes
Defender
Successfully
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Everyone wants to play in the Champions' League because that's where it is all happening. That's where you get the A-status for players. It's very important for young players.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Champions League
Champions
Young Players
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He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Basics
Fundamentals
Van
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We started a new movement called street soccer, so I was already breathing and living the style. Since street soccer is not a game but a lifestyle, it required a matching wardrobe.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Lifestyle
Matching
Soccer
Required
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It is a lot easier to manage at a big club rather than at a smaller one. Look at Frank Rijkaard. At Sparta Rotterdam, he was disastrous - and then went to Barca and won everything.
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Frank
Manage
Disastrous
Smaller
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Almost every football player played on the streets. And also, a lot of people not ending up as football players play on the streets. It's the beginning of a lot of social gathering.
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Football Player
Gathering
Streets
Ending
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People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that's just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted with it. Football is just a magnifying glass of the real world.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Abuse
Magnifying
Real World
Confronted
Home Football World
Glass
Go Home
The Real World
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Ronaldo is just an athlete. He works so hard and back to back; he is always there. But if you work hard, can you be like Messi? No, that's impossible. Can you be like Ronaldo? Yes, to a certain extent.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Athlete
Messi
Certain Extent
Extent
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I know him very well, but I think Alessandro Del Piero knows himself the best, better than everyone else, so only he can answer the question if he needs to stop or needs to play. It's his own decision.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Decision
Needs
Everyone Else
Himself
Question
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If you look at most youngsters, they have worked well under Van Gaal. I had never heard of Thomas Muller at Bayern Munich before Van Gaal managed him, and he's now one of the best players in the world.
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Youngsters
Best Look World
Thomas
Van
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When you look at youth, they want to aspire to somebody. You can see that with him you have to work hard, and that's what you bring if you have someone like Ronaldo who embodies hard work and determination.
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Aspire
Determination
Embodies
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I started in a 4-3-3 formation at Ajax, playing in left midfield. There, you need to be just as involved defensively as you are going forward. You attack and you defend, and that allows you to be a complete player.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Formation
Involved
Attack
Complete
Defend
Defensively
Midfield
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Ask most people, and they will say their name or profession, but you have to know who you are both physically and mentally. It's really important in football because then you know your trigger points, how to adapt and improve.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Profession
Adapt
Mentally
Trigger
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That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Arguing
Mature
Life Best Yourself
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By playing in the street, the level of Asian football can absolutely improve, as you will get more technical players. They will be quicker, more creative, and after succeeding in the street, it will be a piece of cake for them to do well eleven a side.
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Cake
Eleven
Quicker
Succeeding
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When you play eleven a side, you might go through a game with very few touches, but with street football, you're always involved in the game, so it is a great way to improve your skill and to learn how to create and use space, as the pitch is very small.
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Great Way
Skill
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You can get racially abused 10 times before you even reach the football stadium. If you've been confronted every day with something like that, it's hard. This is not about people playing the 'race card.' This is a reality that people like to sweep under the carpet.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Abuse
Carpet
Card
Confronted
Stadium
Sweep
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In management, everything is different. If you look at successful coaches, they always need time to kickstart something. Arrigo Sacchi - when he started the revolution at Milan, he was almost on the brink of being sacked, but then he won, and people started believing in the system; he had more time to breathe.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Breathe
Coaches
Management
Milan
Revolution
Time Always Look
Time Look People
Believing
Brink
Won
Sacked
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When someone makes a racist remark, that doesn't make him a racist, but you have to say, 'This the line. You've crossed it, and you have to apologize' - not only to the person who has been hurt but also the people who live with that racial abuse almost all their lives. I think that's unacceptable if you don't.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Abuse
Almost All
Apologize
Crossed
Racial
Remark
Unacceptable
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Everyone has an affection for the club where you played in your youth; that's normal. But loyalty to it? Loyalty is staying at the club. Affection is different. The important thing is that when you're there, you give it your all, respect the rules and respect the club, and try to be the best you can be. That's fair enough.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Loyalty
Affection
Staying
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Asian players are very eager to work hard, but they don't have the physicality of the Europeans, so they might actually need to work twice as hard. With street football, their skills will improve a lot, and so will their tactical awareness, because by playing within a limited space, you need to be very focused on your game.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Asian
Awareness
Physicality
Tactical
Eager
Europeans
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Ronaldo is the best of the best, I mean not only as a football player but also as a human being. You can see how he developed and how devoted he is to really staying on top every year to excel. I think that is something unbelievable, and I said it before and will say it again: he is an athlete, and an athlete is a positive thing.
Edgar Davids / Footballer
Positive
Athlete
Football
Football Player
Staying
Unbelievable
Developed
Excel
Human Being
Positive Thing
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