Top 65 Ruud Quotes
#1. Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.
John Motson
#2. There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.
Alan Shearer
#3. As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#4. If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.
Ruud Gullit
#5. If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.
Ruud Gullit
#6. Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#7. 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
#8. I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#10. People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.
Ruud Gullit
#12. But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#13. Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#14. I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.
Ruud Gullit
#15. Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.
Ruud Gullit
#16. Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened
Ruud Gullit
#17. I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#18. My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#19. Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#20. We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.
Ruud Gullit
#21. We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.
Ruud Gullit
#23. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.
Ruud Gullit
#24. To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch
Ruud Gullit
#26. The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.
Ruud Gullit
#27. 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
#29. If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#30. In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#31. Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.
Ruud Gullit
#32. I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.
Ruud Gullit
#33. Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can't accept that. Especially when things don't go right for United. It all means so much to me to be succesful here. It drives me crazy at times.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#34. Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The club [Real Madrid] has a fantastic set-up with marvellous people. The atmosphere at training is perfect - it's just wonderful
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#39. In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.
Ruud Gullit
#40. To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.
Ruud Gullit
#41. 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.
Ruud Gullit
#42. People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#43. 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.
Ruud Gullit
#44. If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#45. I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.
Ruud Gullit
#46. I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.
Ruud Gullit
#47. We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#48. To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.
Ruud Gullit
#49. 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
#50. If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.
Ruud Gullit
#51. 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
#52. When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#53. If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.
Ruud Gullit
#54. Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#57. You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.
Ruud Gullit
#58. You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.
Ruud Gullit
#60. Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#61. When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#62. I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#63. It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#64. In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#65. Every week you have to play well to be the champion.
Ruud Gullit
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