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

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

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.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

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?’

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

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 promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs – I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says ‘Be still and know you are God.’ What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love.