“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.”

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‘What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?’

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

The German word ‘will’ is the English word ‘want,’ so that’s a little bit of the problem.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.

If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.