Author Profile
Marco van Basten
1964 • Dutch • Manager
60
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesAs a player, you play and you have much more influence. As a manager, you talk about the game all week with every player and all of a sudden when it starts, your influence is so small and it was very difficult for me to accept that.— Marco van Basten
When you get older and more open and more honest, it is easier to show yourself how you really are.— Marco van Basten
Maybe an orange card could be shown that sees a player go out of the game for 10 minutes for incidents that are not heavy enough for a red card.— Marco van Basten
We want to have a game which is honest, which is dynamic, a nice spectacle so we should try to do everything to help that process.— Marco van Basten
Messi is unique. Inimitable and unrepeatable. Like him, one every fifty years. As a child, he fell into the pot of the football genius.— Marco van Basten
Ronaldo is a great player. But those who claim that he is stronger than Messi do not understand football or are in bad faith.— Marco van Basten
Sacchi was a good coach. He wanted to play pressure football. The good thing was that he created a good group with lots of discipline. Working together was the key. You had to do your work to help the team and that was all important.— Marco van Basten
I have worked with Johan Cruyff, with Rinus Michels, with Arrigo Sacchi and with Fabio Capello.— Marco van Basten
If I don't get enough attention, I want more attention. If I have too much attention, I want it to stop. It is not always easy to understand myself.— Marco van Basten
I had nice years at Ajax, wonderful years with Milan, and won something with the national team.— Marco van Basten
Am I too critical on Torres and Drogba because I used to be a striker myself? I don't think so.— Marco van Basten
They are not the same - Xavi is more the man of passing and Iniesta can dribble more - but they have great vision, they are important to the defence and the attack.— Marco van Basten