“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.”

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

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.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’

I think there are some players born to play ball.

I’m not the type of guy who’s just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who’s wide open. I can make the right pass.

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.

Any time the ball goes through the basket, and it’s going through consistently, it’s demoralizing for any opponent.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.