Top 34 Quotes & Sayings by Ruud Gullit

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Dutch athlete Ruud Gullit.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Ruud Gullit is a Dutch footballer and subsequent manager who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s as a defender, midfielder or forward. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. He captained the Netherlands national team that was victorious at UEFA Euro 1988 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 FIFA World Cup and Euro 1992.

Dutch - Athlete | Born: September 1, 1962

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

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

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

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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.

Ruud Gullit

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

Ruud Gullit

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

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.

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

Ruud Gullit

You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruud Gullit

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

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

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.

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

Ruud Gullit

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

Ruud Gullit

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.

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

Ruud Gullit

You have to be open to everything.

Ruud Gullit

Politics and football don't mix.

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.

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To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

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.

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

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.

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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.

Ruud Gullit

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

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

Ruud Gullit

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

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

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