“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.”

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

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.

Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Often, you are forced to keep things simpl

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions.

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

Sometimes I don’t use the words ‘will’ and ‘want’ in the right way.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

I’m really a normal football manager.

My first win feels better than a draw!

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

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.

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.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

I realized I could not fulfill my responsibilities to the team from both a time and energy standpoint. I need to take a step back and take some time away, both mentally and physically in order to prepare for the upcoming NBA season.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can’t be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.

Presidents in both parties – from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan – have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.