Ruud Gullit Quotes

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.

You have to be open to everything.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 only stop learning when you quit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.

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

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

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

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

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

Politics and football don't mix.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

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