Quotes by Louis Van Gaal - Page 2

I am immensely proud to have helped United win the FA Cup for the 12th time in the club's history.
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Time History I Am
Immensely
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To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.
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Communicate
Analyze
Observe
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I always tried to defend high up the pitch, to be in the opposition's half and play the game there.
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Opposition
Pitch
Defend
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With Ajax, I played Mexico in Mexico City, and our players could hardly keep up for half the match.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Hardly
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If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.
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Player
Suffering
Tasks
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You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.
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Football
Football Player
Professional Football
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I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.
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Team
Winning
World
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When you win the FA Cup, you have a title and a very respectable title in England - more than other countries.
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Other Countries
Respectable
Title
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My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world.
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Ambition
Player
Team
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You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.
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Deliver
Team Sport
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I have a philosophy. I was convinced of it, and by winning trophies in four countries, I proved the philosophy worked.
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Convinced
Trophies
Proved
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It's not hard at all to make the switch from United to Oranje. For a manager, it's totally different than for a player.
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Switch
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The accommodation for the players to dress themselves, to change into their club shirts, are in most stadiums not so good.
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Shirts
Stadiums
Accommodation
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I speak English my way, but people understand it. You can understand everything I say, and that's the most important thing.
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Important Thing
People Way Important
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs.
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Clubs
Long
Player
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With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.
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Intuition
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When you have an older group of players, they play on automatic pilot a lot of the time, but with youngsters, you have more intuition.
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Intuition
Youngsters
Automatic
Pilot
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I'm not the kind of coach who just goes out and buys players for the sake of it. I'm a coach who wants to - and can - improve players.
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Player
Sake
Want
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When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.
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Possession
Score
Ball
Chances
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It has been an honor to manage such a magnificent club as Manchester United FC, and in doing so, I have fulfilled a long-held ambition.
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Fulfilled
Magnificent
Manage
Manchester United
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I was a fan of Henk Groot, former striker of Ajax, who scored many goals with his head. I thought, 'I can do that also,' but I couldn't.
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Former
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Sometimes players are very fed up with my communication, but that's what I do, and they know how I think. But they know I am very transparent.
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Communication
Fed Up
Transparent
I Am Sometimes Know
Fed
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Having coached Ajax, Barcelona, the Netherlands, FC Bayern, and Manchester United like I did, it is difficult for any offer to be interesting.
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Barcelona
Manchester
Manchester United
Netherlands
Coached
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When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.
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Time I Am Me
Adapt
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Having managed in Holland, Spain, and Germany, I had always hoped for the opportunity to manage in English football and be part of English culture.
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Opportunity
English Football
Football
Germany
Holland
Manage
Spain
Hoped
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You are always evaluating. That philosophy is very important for me. Because of that, I am - or maybe I should say was - a very successful manager.
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Always Me I Am
Evaluating
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A World Cup is always special because it is the highest podium on which you can show your abilities as an individual player or coach, and as a team.
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World Cup
Podium
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The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.
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Capable
Evaluate
Important
Introspection
Should
Person
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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OK, Wayne Rooney is always the center of attention, and I always have to answer questions about him. But Wayne is Wayne, and he will always contribute in a game.
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Attention
Wayne
Always Game Will
Center
Contribute
Game Will Always
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The coach is the focal point of the team, but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.
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Common Goal
Focal Point
Open Mind
Work Together Mind
Focal
Work Together
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The media likes me because I give honest answers. How many people in football give honest answers? I don't lie. Always the truth. OK, maybe my truth. But it is the truth.
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Answers
My Truth
How Many People
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The most important thing is they have to know why we do things and when. A lot of players are playing intuitively, and I want them to think and know why they do something.
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Intuitively
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I think, always, the form of the players is a decisive factor. And a game-plan and the referee. He can influence the game. And in a derby, a cool head is also very important.
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Derby
Referee
Decisive
Factor
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Preparing your tactical formation is essential. Each player needs to know where he has to be, and that is why there needs to be mutual understanding: because you need absolute discipline.
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Discipline
Formation
Mutual
Mutual Understanding
Player
Preparing
Tactical
Understanding
Absolute
Essential
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It's difficult to beat German teams. They don't play as attractively as, for example, you have it in the English league or in the Spanish league. But to break a German team is not very easy.
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German
For Example
Spanish
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It was very difficult to succeed Bert van Marwijk because, two years before, he was second in the World Cup, and then he left a broken-up team behind - so that was much more difficult than you think.
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World Cup
Van
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I look for players who do not just score goals but provide an attacking point, linking with other players and able to see the third man as well. Van Persie is one of the best strikers around at that.
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Score
Best Man Look
Linking
Van
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I have been privileged during my management career to have won 20 trophies, but winning the FA Cup, which is steeped in so much history, will always be one of the most special achievements of my career.
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Management
Privileged
Trophies
History Always Will
Achievements
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There is no winter break, and I think that is the most evil thing of this culture. It is not good for English football. It is not good for the clubs or the national team, and I think you should change it.
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Break
Clubs
English Football
Evil
Football
National Team
Winter
Change Good Football
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I think I could have worked as a technical director. But in this role, you can't attend training or say anything for fear it won't suit the coach, directors, or media. I don't think I want a job like that.
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Attend
Suit
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When I have signed for clubs, I have always spoken a long time with the CEO or with the owners, not only at United, but also at Bayern Munich and Barcelona, and I have the faith that they always support me.
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Barcelona
Ceo
Clubs
Owners
Time Faith Always
Signed
Spoken
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Players can play bad, and certainly when you have only three days or six days training sessions in your legs, and you have to play 45 minutes. Everybody can say that it's easy to step in, but it is not easy.
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Legs
Six Days
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If you ask me how did I do at United, I will say it was my best year ever, given the circumstances I was working under. We played football that was quite alright. But it's not football that is appreciated in England.
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Alright
Appreciated
Best Football Me
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I have to treat all of the players at the same level with the same rules and same demands. It's difficult to understand, because the outside world is thinking when you pay a lot for the player, then you have to put him in the squad.
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Outside World
Squad
Same Level
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The basis of my confidence is that I wasn't a talented player. I was a talented human being. At school, I always had good figures. I was the captain of all my football teams. I studied physical education at the Academy, so I learned to analyse, to observe, and to take decisions.
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Confidence
Education
Academy
Figures
Football
Physical Education
Player
School
Good Always Football
Decisions
Studied
Had
Analyse
Basis
Captain
Take
Talented
Human
Human Being
Learned
Observe
Physical
Teams
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It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history.
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Ambition
Games
League
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A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm flexible. The philosophy stays the same though. I don't think that you can adapt it to every possible situation. You need the right mindset, and it depends on how the players see the coach and vice versa. The coach is the focal point of the team but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.
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Philosophy
Player
Team
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