“I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.”

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.

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.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

You put different combinations in the mix and it becomes something unique in the end.

Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

We all love and become confused when we don’t act as well as we would like to.

We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.

The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.