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

- 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 have to be open to everything.

- 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

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

- Ruud Gullit

Politics and football don't mix.

- Ruud Gullit

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

- 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'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

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

- 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

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

- Ruud Gullit

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

- Ruud Gullit

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

- Ruud Gullit

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

- 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

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

- 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

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