Ruud Gullit Quotes

• I’m looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

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

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• You only stop learning when you quit.

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  Tags in Learning, Stop

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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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  Tags in Home

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

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  Topics in Future, History

• 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

  Topics in Father, Mother

• 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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  Tags in Few, Played

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

  Ruud Gullit

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  Tags in Strong, Better

• To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

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  Tags in Play

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

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Happen

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

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  Tags in Football, Often

• Politics and football don’t mix.

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Football, Mix

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

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  Tags in Magician

• 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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  Tags in Person, Same

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

  Ruud Gullit

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  Tags in Football, Talking

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

  Ruud Gullit

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  Tags in Career, Team

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

  Ruud Gullit

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  Tags in Anything, Problem, Cancer

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

  Ruud Gullit

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  Tags in Leave, Player, Insulted

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Big, Wrong

• 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

  Topics in God

  Tags in Question, Meet

Ruud Gullit (27)

Birth:	1st September, 1962
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Football Player

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Ruud Gullit is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup.

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