The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.Collection: Best
When you play sports like tennis, you're alone, and that's a good school for life, but it's also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too - helping others in difficult moments.Collection: Alone
I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.Collection: Learning
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.Collection: Success
My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.Collection: Change
I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.Collection: Positive
The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.Collection: Future
I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.Collection: Love
Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!Collection: Life
My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.Collection: Success
Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.Collection: Good
When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I'd be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I'd always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.Collection: Home
I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.Collection: Success
Only stupid people are changed by success.Collection: Success
I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.Collection: Romantic
When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.
If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.
The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.
When the players go home, I can't tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don't want to think, 'What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?'
The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.
I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, 'Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.' I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.
I'm not sure what you need first - the players believing or others believing in them - but in the end, both have to think it.
It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?
Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United - on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji's best role.
Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There's no advantage or disadvantage for either side.
The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football - it's the top challenge.
I've met some Evertonians in the street, and they've been friendly. I've had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They've been really nice.
If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.
I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.
Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims - it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can't get.
We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can't remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.
It's a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don't have to give all, and you still win, what's this?