“I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!”

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing!

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

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.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

There’s more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.