I think I am capable of captaincy.

FC Bayern are only my second club.

I am always motivated.

As players at Bayern, we're not interested in any boredom - we're interested in picking up three points each game.

We know from experience that anything can happen in games against strong opponents; nuances can make the difference.

I consider that part of my job as a pro: to know who you're up against and how the attacking players play, what kind of characteristics they have, their qualities, how they move, their preferred foot.

In life, I'm a guy who likes to drive a car quite fast, but I wear a seat belt at the same time.

If I think I will get the ball, I go out. I can't stop halfway because the goal is empty and the player would have the opportunity to shoot. You make the reaction, and then, of course, you have to be sure to get the ball. But it's years of practice. You can't say from one day to the other, 'Now I will do it,' you know? You have to feel it.

I have a good record in shoot-outs. In such moments, I'm always confident of making at least a couple of stops; I always feel the taker is under more strain. Worrying is the kicker's job, as he's expected to score, while I have nothing to lose.

I got my first football when I was two and played my first proper game before I was five. So nothing else was ever an option!

One of the great things about being a professional football player is visiting countries and seeing cultures you might never see.

A fit player has good and bad times during a season, and you have that in rehab, too.

A keeper has to adjust his game to the team. If the team moves further up, he has to do the same. It's nothing I've invented.

I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.

As a keeper, you can't be afraid.

As for being the best goalkeeper in the world, it's been written occasionally, but I'd never say it myself.

For me, the main thing is that I continually improve my game and make sure I keep setting the bar high.

Personal success means nothing if it isn't aligned with the success of the team. I consider myself to be a team player more than anything else.

Sometimes you can say it is boring being in goal, but what is important is I am in communication with the defence.

For me, it's more important to win a team award, like a World Cup.

It's difficult when you don't take part in team training and have to train alone.

As a goalkeeper, I talk a lot to my fellow players on and off the pitch.

The Bundesliga is a lucrative league, and in Germany, the best club is Bayern, and I wanted to play for the best club in Germany.

If you look at the history of Manchester United, they are always a big side, so there is no time of underestimating them.

People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.

I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.

I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.

I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind...

If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.'

Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.

Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.

Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.

I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.