Ruud Gullit

You only stop learning when you quit.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

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

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

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.

You have to be open to everything.

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.

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.

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

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

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.