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

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.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.

We all wanted to be like him.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

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

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.