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
believe miracle i-believe
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.
nobody talking television
In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.
mandela nelson
Nelson Mandela was as disappointed as I was.
alan change knew succeed team
If we were going to succeed as a team I knew we had to change Alan Shearer but he didn't want to change.
mean people special
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.
player should-have fields
If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.
knows
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.
determination eye winning
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.
people expectations magician
People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.
You have to be open to everything.
team careers looks
If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.
mother father boys
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.
soccer play dutch
To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.