The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.
— Jurgen Klopp
Crazy players love me. I don't know why.
Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.
Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That's OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it's not guaranteed.
I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.
It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?
I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.
If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.
Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.
What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.
If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.
To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.
I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.
I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.
The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.
In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.
I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.
Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.
You'd be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.
My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.
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. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.
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.
I only change things where I know about a situation. I'd never change just for change.
My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.
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.
Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.
To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.
That's what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.
Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.
When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.
In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.
Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.
In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.
Sometimes I don't use the words 'will' and 'want' in the right way. The German word 'will' is the English word 'want,' so that's a little bit of the problem.
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?
Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United - on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji's best role.
Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. 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.
I have no problem if someone wants to hug me - if I know him!
I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.
I get a little bit emotional during a game!
I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.
There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.
My first win feels better than a draw!
I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.
We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool - it is not a usual.
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.
In London, you'll be walking around and, 'Oh, there's the ground.' Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that's good.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
