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

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.

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 stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I’d probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it..

I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.

Anyway, I just haven’t been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.