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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I'd be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I'd always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

Sometimes I don't use the words 'will' and 'want' in the right way. The German word 'will' is the English word 'want,' so that's a little bit of the problem.

I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That's OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it's not guaranteed.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

I've met some Evertonians in the street, and they've been friendly. I've had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They've been really nice.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims - it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can't get.

You'd be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.

Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United - on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji's best role.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

My father gave me some advice when I was very young - whatever someone tells you in the future, don't forget Pele is the best.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don't really think about it.

I know I'm more on television, and I'm more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

In London, you'll be walking around and, 'Oh, there's the ground.' Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that's good.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, 'Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.' I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.

Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There's no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

It is my job to help the players react better.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

I'm really a normal football manager.

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.