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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?'

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?

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.

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.

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

My first win feels better than a draw!

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

I'm an absolutely normal guy.

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

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

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

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

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