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..

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….

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

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger..

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

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

Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened.

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..

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..

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 aske….

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician..

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..

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better..

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

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us..

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future..

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make..

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football..

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis..

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

Politics and football don't mix..