“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.”

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.

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

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.

Realizing that everyone (consciously or subconsciously) feels alone too – but no matter what, we’re actually ALL together – is what has helped evolve my way of thinking about it.

Feeling alone is what most likely sparked this way of thinking.

Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.

I’m my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I think the responsibility of pop stars is to liberate the masses. In that everyone can be whatever they wanna be.

Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don’t vote that way.

Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another.

Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they’re like, ‘I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound’