“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.”

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.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

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?

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

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.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

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.