“I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.”

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

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

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. e.

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.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.

The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

I went straight from high school to ‘Gossip Girl,’ and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.

I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.

It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.