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

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.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

I’m an absolutely normal guy.

Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they’re so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.

Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.

Every game is an away game. Sometimes its hard to keep up with real life.

I can’t say I’m thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn’t want to escape it. I have accepted it.

I can’t say I’m thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn’t want to escape it. I have accepted it.

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme — mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.