Ruud Gullit quotes
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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.”
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“We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.”
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“The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.”
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“To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch”
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“Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.”
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“If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.”
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“If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.”
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“I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.”
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“Every week you have to play well to be the champion.”
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“To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.”
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“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.”
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“Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened”
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“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.”
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“In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.”
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“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 GullitSource : "The flower and the glory". February 8, 2004.
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“To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.”
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“If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.”
-- Ruud GullitSource : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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“I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.”
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“I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.”
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“I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.”
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“Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.”
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“You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.”
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“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 GullitSource : "The flower and the glory". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.
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“If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.”
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“You have to be open to everything.”
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“People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.”
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“We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- Ruud GullitSource : Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.
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“You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.”
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“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.”
-- Ruud Gullit
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