You need to receive the ball and be assertive with it.

You need to be able to deal with pressure while on the ball and not keep giving it away in easy situations.

I have faith in all my players.

I would not deny that to work as a club coach could be fun.

The end of a tournament is a good time to pause.

The cognitive development of the players is enormously important, as well as social competence and character values such as discipline and teamwork.

Mesut Ozil, a Mario Gotze, a Mats Hummels, a Holger Badstuber, and so on - they are very mature even in their younger years.

Intelligent players are receptive and capable of implementation.

Every game brings important insights.

German virtues are now about technically good players playing attacking football.

If you have a good product, like football, you should also think about limiting it to keep the quality high.

You have to be careful that you do not overdo things with too many games, because the quality must not suffer. Fans would then also turn away and the interest would subside.

World Cups and European Championships should feature the best teams. When you keep increasing the number of teams, you dilute the quality.

If a player is 20 or 21 and sits on the bench for two or three years, I don't know if that's useful.

Pep Guardiola was very good for the Bundesliga.

To whistle your own player at one time or another, even before kick-off, I don't think is fair. It doesn't help the player carry on, so it doesn't help the team.

Stefan Kiessling is a striker who has put in very good performances in the Bundesliga over the years.

When you lose a game, you are annoyed.

At the top level you know most things about the best clubs, there aren't too many surprises.

Good physical conditioning is essential for success.

It's important to have players like Schweinsteiger and Khedira, the connectors, the symmetry-makers in the game. They can take the tempo out of the game or pick it up.

The important thing is that the players do what the coach tells them on the pitch, both at their club and with the national teams. And that's the case with Mats Hummels.

If you become world champions, there is nothing to top that. It's the result of many years of work, good decisions inside the association, good training and good players.

I know how to deal with pressure.

You always want to see the best players in action at a World Cup, and the players always want to measure themselves up to the very best.

Sometimes I just have to follow my intuition.

Roy Hodgson is a fantastic coach. I first knew him when I was playing in Switzerland and he was national team coach. It was under him that Switzerland revolutionised their player formation system.

Klopp would be a great addition to any team.

I am very grateful for the belief that the DFB has shown in me and I feel, generally, that despite the justified criticism towards me, I feel a lot of support and encouragement too.

I don't think it's such a bad thing to have internal debate between coach and leading players.

Sometimes it's natural to do the safe pass, the no-frills thing, to pass it back to the goalkeeper. But I want them to do the daring thing.

I don't think we should compare club teams with international teams because they are different cups of tea.

Ozil is a great distributor and does a lot of running.

You can play happy-go-lucky football against Brazil in a friendly but not in a tournament.

Midfielders must do everything.

We need to be one team on the pitch.

From my point of view, it is not the coach who becomes world champion, it is a team. Not just the players who played, but the whole squad, and also the team behind the team. Because if you want to achieve success, the whole team has to work perfectly, like a machine, and all the pieces of the puzzle need to fit together into one picture.

I think the core job of a coach is to select the right players for a tournament. You need players who are mentally and physically fit, who are able to deal with difficult moments.

A coach needs to be a psychologist, because during a tournament you're looking after a team of players which is being watched closely and put under a lot of pressure.

You shouldn't be scared of putting together a team made up of experts who are better than the coach in some aspects... So for me personally, it was important to have people in my environment who discuss things with me, who give me their opinions, but who are loyal to me and who are reliable.

Static strikers do not exist anymore.

For us, for me as national coach, the Nations League is a good invention.

Sometimes you learn the most from your defeats.

There has never been even a hint of an expression of racism in the national team.

I want to establish an error culture in friendlies. We can make mistakes, learn from them and correct them.

Italy is one of the great footballing nations, with whom we have a great sporting rivalry.

I had the idea to bring an experimental squad to the Confederations Cup in 2014.

I consider 100 wins to be better than 100 defeats.

I take sporting criticism on board very keenly and with deference, and I also try to make decisions based on it.

To sing the national anthem is wonderful, but it's far from the sign of a strong team and it is absolutely no indication of a lack of desire to fight.