Ruud Gullit Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Taken #Risk #Challenges

“We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Sports #Cost #Three

“The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Mistake #More Time

“You only stop learning when you quit.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Football #Quitting

“To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Play #Dutch #Holland

“Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Football #Athlete #Player

“If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Player #Fields #Should

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

#Cancer #Say Anything #Problem

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

#Player #Matter #Stubborn

“Every week you have to play well to be the champion.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Play #Champion #Week

“To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Soccer #Play #Dutch

“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Believe #Miracle #I Believe

“Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Men #Cities #Needed

“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.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Football #Fun #Heart

“In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Football #Talking #Television

“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.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Stars #Wall #May

“To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Country #Play

“Politics and football don't mix.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Football

“If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Taken #Tennis #Individual

“I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Sexy #Football #Looking Forward

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

#Football #Thinking #Careers

“I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Games #Speed #Fit

“Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Football #Missing #Coaching

“You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.”
-- Ruud Gullit

“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.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Mother #Father #Boys

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

#Team #Careers #Looks

“You have to be open to everything.”
-- Ruud Gullit

“People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#People #Expectations #Magician

“We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Strong #Thinking #Dutch

“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.”
-- Ruud Gullit

#Player #Black #Abuse