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Ruud Gullit Quotes:

Ruud Gullit quotes

Ocupation: Football manager

Life: b. September 1, 1962

Birthday: September 1

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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.

Topics: Taken, Risk, Challenges

quote we must have had 99 per cent of the match it was the other three per cent that cost ruud gullit Quotes

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

Topics: Sports, Cost, Three, Funniest Sports, Stupid Sports

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

Topics: Mistake, More Time

You only stop learning when you quit.

Topics: Football, Quitting

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

Topics: Play, Dutch, Holland

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

Topics: Football, Athlete, Player

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

Topics: Player, Fields, Should, Insulted

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Player, Matter, Stubborn

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

Topics: Play, Champion, Week

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

Topics: Soccer, Play, Dutch, Holland

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.

Topics: Believe, Miracle, I Believe, I Believe In Miracles

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Football, Fun, Heart, Hassle

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

Topics: 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.

source: - "The flower and the glory". February 8, 2004.

Topics: Stars, Wall, May

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

Topics: Country, Play

Politics and football don't mix.

Topics: Football

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

source: - Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Topics: Taken, Tennis, Individual

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Football, Thinking, Careers

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

Topics: Games, Speed, Fit, Sweepers

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

Topics: Football, Missing, Coaching

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.

source: - "The flower and the glory". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

Topics: Mother, Father, Boys, Castes

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

Topics: Team, Careers, Looks

You have to be open to everything.

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

Topics: People, Expectations, Magician

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

Topics: Strong, Thinking, Dutch, Strong Opinions

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.

Topics: Player, Black, Abuse

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.

source: - Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

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

Topics: Home, Funny Things, Play

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.

Topics: Determination, Eye, Winning

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