Quotes from Ruud Gullit

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

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.

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.

Politics and football don't mix.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You only stop learning when you quit.

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

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

You only stop learning when you quit.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

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.

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.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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