Ruud Gullit Quotes

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

You only stop learning when you quit.

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

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.

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

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

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

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

Politics and football don't mix.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.

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.

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

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

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

You have to be open to everything.

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

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

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.