52 Quotes by Ruud Gullit

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

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.

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

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.

Nelson Mandela was as disappointed as I was.

If we were going to succeed as a team I knew we had to change Alan Shearer but he didn't want to change.

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

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.

You have to be open to everything.