Ruud Gullit
Ruud Gullit
Ruud Gullit OON; born Rudi Dil, 1 September 1962) is a Dutch football manager and former footballer who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s as a midfielder or forward. 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 and Euro 92...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth1 September 1962
CityAmsterdam, Netherlands
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Nelson Mandela was as disappointed as I was.
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If we were going to succeed as a team I knew we had to change Alan Shearer but he didn't want to change.
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In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.
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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.
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If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.
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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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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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People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.
You have to be open to everything.
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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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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 can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.
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To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.
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If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.