Ruud Gullit Quotes

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• We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.
• You only stop learning when you quit.
• Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.
• If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.
• The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.
• You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.
• To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.
• Every week you have to play well to be the champion.
• I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.
• 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,…
• If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.
• You have to be open to everything.
• People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.
• We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.
• Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

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