Words of Wisdom

May 24th, 2006 | By: Mike | 4 Comments »

There is no better way to get an Oranje fan up and ready to go than to throw a Cruyff quote at them and watch the smile spread across their faces. Some are funny, some are surprising but all of them will make you smile. Keep in mind that these posts are courtesy of friend, Jan who did the translating and provided the context within the quotes took place. On to the first:

When JC just started coaching Barca, he was asked a question during a press conference. He later confessed, that he actually gave the answer in Dutch in his head, before translating it for the Spanish press.
Now, in Dutch we have a little phrase that goes “op een gegeven moment”, which translates into English something like: “at a given time, or at a given moment”. This is a phrase the Spanish language does not have. JC didn’t know, so he started his answer with: :Un momento dado…” Nobody understood this. A moment was given?? By whom? To whom? How??? Everyone was clueless. But JC didn’t know, and he went on to use that phrase ad nauseum (he does say it a lot in Dutch too) until 1) people started to get what he meant and 2) (after a while) it became a popular and “normal” phrase in Spanish too. In fact, it is now added to the official Spanish dictionary.



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Username By Yoka Olijve | May 24th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
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Te most famous quote of JC:
(in Dutch: “elk nadeel heb z’n voordeel”) meaning:
“every disadvantage has it’s advantage”
This quote is used very often in the Netherlands.

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Username By Mike | May 24th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
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Hey now; don’t be giving away all of the quotes!

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Username By Kyle | May 24th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
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Hey the more quotes the merrier for me. I need to learn Dutch somehow.

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Username By Rik | May 30th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
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The one on my t-shirt says, “Football is a game you play with your brain.”

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