Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

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?'