I have no problem with answering questions honestly or even looking outside the box and answering private questions.

I wish that sometimes there is a little more honesty and that you can discuss things openly. There should not be taboo subjects.

Football is our life, not politics.

It would be the completely wrong thing to go into games with fear.

The Premier League is the best league in the world in my opinion.

I would be absolutely delighted if I were to have a career similar to that of Schweinsteiger, both at club and international level. We all know what he has done for German football. It is an honour to be likened to him.

I am always open-minded for challenges.

Football has to keep being part of my daily routine!

Pep has so much charisma that always makes you give more than 100 per cent, not only in matches, but in training too. His way of understanding the game also suits my style perfectly.

Klopp's philosophy? Getting the ball back, a quick switching game, combinations and then ice cold in front of goal.

Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola are the two best teachers in the world.

When you are in front and top of the table, it feels great to look at it.

When you are not able to score the first goal, maybe we get nervous and don't 100% feel the confidence is there and we have to be patient.

We always feel when we're able to score the first goal or an early goal, we feel like we are unstoppable.

If I'm needed, I'm ready to help the team wherever.

You cannot just win every single game by three, four or five goals and then when you come into the last 16 playing a good team, 1-0 down, expect to turn it around easily. It's not always like that.

It's important in sport and life, if you do something with confidence you always do it better. That's the same in football and everything else.

The Champions League is maybe the most prestigious competition in the game and if you don't win it, as much as we are a great team, you feel like there's always something missing.

If we are quite defensive and we lose the ball, we just try to get back into our positions and try to defend. That's something you have to do from time to time.

That is the most difficult thing: to feel that you are useless, not worth as much as before, not worth as much as the others.

I do not want people to forget me.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the world class player after Messi, but for me he is not on this Galactico level of Messi.

In my opinion, he has very special abilities. He has talent and he always manages to show it on the pitch. He always has the instinct to make the right decision. He uses his speed well against the opponents he plays. He has a strong finish. All in all, no one else has as much quality as Lionel Messi.

I wanted to leave Dortmund in Dortmund and not think about spending time with Jurgen when I chose a new club. That was partly a reason for me not to go to Liverpool.