To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

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

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

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

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I've thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it's playing together.

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.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

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

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

I love pets, especially dogs.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool - it is not a usual.

I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.

I don't feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

I don't think I'm an unlucky person.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

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

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

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.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

I have no problem if someone wants to hug me - if I know him!

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.

Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like.

That's what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

I'm an absolutely normal guy.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don't walk on water.

My first win feels better than a draw!

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

When you play sports like tennis, you're alone, and that's a good school for life, but it's also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too - helping others in difficult moments.

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.

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?

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?'

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.

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.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

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

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.

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

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

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

I'm looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It's a special club.

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football - it's the top challenge.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I'd be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I'd always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

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.