“I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.”

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

The German word ‘will’ is the English word ‘want,’ so that’s a little bit of the problem.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

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.

I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. e.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.

A winner never stops trying.

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.