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.

To play Holland, you have 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

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

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.

Politics and football don't mix.

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

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

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

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

You only stop learning when you quit.