Ruud Gullit Quotes

To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

You only stop learning when you quit.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

You have to be open to everything.

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

Politics and football don't mix.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.

Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.