Gullit Quotes & Sayings

Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele ... Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar. — Gary Lineker

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

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

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

To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch — Ruud Gullit

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles. — Ruud Gullit

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch. — Ruud Gullit

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

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

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

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

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make. — Ruud Gullit

Politics and football don't mix. — Ruud Gullit

You have to be open to everything. — Ruud Gullit

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

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football. — Ruud Gullit

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

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

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

You only stop learning when you quit. — Ruud Gullit

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes. — Ruud Gullit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Ruud Gullit

Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened — Ruud Gullit

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 Gullit

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

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

Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match. — John Motson

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

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager. — Alan Shearer

Every week you have to play well to be the champion. — Ruud Gullit