Thomas Muller deserves enormous respect. He's hardly ever injured and has always been with the national team, where other players might have said they are tired, need a break or were injured. He has busted his butt for the national team.

The World Cup is the toughest challenge there is. You have seven matches where you have to bring your best and cannot let up at any turn.

Penalty shoot-outs depend on so many things.

The high demands on teams in national leagues and of course the Champions League - it's too much.

It's a long time since men's cosmetics were considered uncool.

The joy of the Brazilians in football is a wonderful thing no matter where you go.

When someone has 100 international games more or less in a row then that's top class.

I have to tip my hat to those who have worked closely with me from the start. All these people have backed me up when it was more difficult, urging me on, so thanks to them.

One win more, one defeat more. There are other important things: family, friendship, values.

The English clubs Arsenal and Manchester United focus on continuity with the same coaches for years.

I strongly favour attractive football.

We don't play to grind out goalless draws.

In 2014, we won the World Cup without a big superstar. We won with a team performance where everyone brought something to the team and gave everything for the team.

If you look at the players, they need more of a break. Some players only get as little as three weeks after a major tournament and it's straight back to the grind.

Good teams have good rotation.

You will often see a young player have something of a hangover following a major tournament.

It's important that you prepare the players for what happens at a tournament, like a World Cup, for example. You can get a better idea of a situation. They can get to know the conditions, the atmosphere in the country, the stadiums and the journeys involved.

To play at the highest level requires tremendous effort, concentration and above all, never giving up.

If you are successful, then it is only human that you are sometimes a bit saturated. You might also lose that hunger which means that others who are more ambitious will knock you off your pedestal.

Without planning there will be no success.

The role of a coach is varied. We have many tasks. To be a visionary that always looks a little bit towards the future: How should the team develop? How should it play at a tournament? Of course you also have to be the contact person for the players, where social competence also plays a role.

I tell my team: if we win the ball, I want to see the ball in the goal in eight seconds. That's my philosophy.

If a player has good technique and a good basic speed, but is slow in the head, this may reduce his value to the team.

When we play with three at the back, we need active players, who tie up the opposition and play passes forward.

People always think that somehow they know everything, can do everything.

Sometimes, as a coach, you have to somehow accept personal disappointments.

Neuer is of course the best goalkeeper in the world.

Cristiano Ronaldo is sensational, a very good professional, an incredible goalscoring machine for many years, but Messi is the most complete player I have seen.

I don't agree with people saying that I am immune to advice or cannot admit when I make a mistake.

Those who know me are aware that I stand by my mistakes or non-working strategies.

For me, it is utterly incomprehensible how people share their private life, from truly confidential and intimate things, indiscriminately with thousands or even millions of people.

I can see exactly why Liverpool want Klopp.

You cannot let him out of your sight, literally. You've always got to ask: 'what's Ronaldo doing, where is Ronaldo?'

I said to Gotze: 'OK, show the world you are better than Messi and can decide the World Cup.' I told him that. I always had a good feeling about Gotze.

Gotze is a miracle boy, a boy wonder. He can play any position up front.

I know lots of Korean players, Heung-Min Son from Tottenham Hotspur of course, there are also lots in the Bundesliga. They have a great mentality and are very quick.

Real Madrid are an interesting club for any manager.

Everyone who knows us knows how we always encourage players to speak out, to be open and honest, to be critical. These things are very important to us.

You need superhuman performances at the World Cup.

As a coach, of course I favour competition.

One can not win titles with result-orientated football anymore and this has been clear to me since 2008.

Even before the World Cup in 2010 I had said that there were no world champions who aim to stifle the opposition's play and somehow hope to win. These teams do not go far.

If players from our national team are playing in the Bundesliga, it for me shows that it is at least as strong and attractive as the Premier League or La Liga.

There are things you can learn about certain players while watching them in action in a friendly.

Every player has his own strengths and weaknesses and has to be integrated into a team.

Everybody wants to have the ball and be perfect with it.

You can learn a lot from setbacks.

I am coach of the Germany national team and there are not many jobs in the world which are better than this.

I don't say anything about referees' decisions, you have to accept them.

For us to reach the Euro 2008 final was a success.