“It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?”

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Often, you are forced to keep things simpl

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

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

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

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

I’m really a normal football manager.

My first win feels better than a draw!

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‘Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.’ I said that because we all cried for a week.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.

Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.