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

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 think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

You can’t get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

Land really is the best art.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.

Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it’s one of the best feelings there is to feel.

Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.