If someone plays six World Cups, they deserve to be congratulated.

Bayern is always a team that can win the Champions League title in Europe.

When I'm with friends, when I have time, I like to play soccer, and I think it's still my passion, still my love. I'm not crazy to do it every day, but sometimes when I see the ball, I like to kick the ball.

Diego Simeone, the coach from Atletico Madrid, was a very strong player as a midfielder.

I had very good players around me in the team, like in the German national team. Andreas Brehme was one of my best partners in the team because he had good eyes; he could always hit the best ball.

I think my breakthrough was at the World Cup 1986.

Winning the World Cup was just the most emotional experience.

Mexico and Italy are countries where you can almost taste the atmosphere from the teeming stands when you're on the field, and that's a real motivation for a player.

My wife is from Russia. I like the country, the mentality of the people.

Football is not only sunshine.

Sancho is a player who has everything. He has fantastic speed, great technique, a good eye for his colleagues, and that key pass. Everything he does, he pulls off at high speed at the right moment. For me, he is a perfect player. The ability he has is instinctive, natural. You cannot teach that brilliance.

I hold Jonas Hector in high esteem, and he is a good player.

Muller isn't a number seven, a number nine, nor a number 10. He is everything and in between.

Niko Kovac had to understand the system inside Bayern, to realise that this is a very different club to Eintracht Frankfurt, where he was before.

I often have the feeling that Ozil does not feel comfortable in the Germany jersey, that he is not free, almost as if he does not want to play at all. There is no heart, no joy, no passion.

Toni Kroos leaving the German national team would hurt me very much.

Every good German team has strong leadership in the side.

Age is just a number when you possess real quality and a game plan.

All my family worked for Puma. My mother worked there, and my father was the guy that opened and closed up in the evening. We lived in the neighbouring building - just a couple of steps, and I would be in the Puma factory. All 300 people that worked there knew me; it was my adventure playground. I knew everything, even how to make a shoe sole.

I think football is football, politics is politics.

Nolito is not a left winger - he is a central player.

I am happy when Bayern win.

I like football. It's fun winning the ball from someone. It's fun shooting at goal. It's fun hitting a ball over 60 metres that arrives. It's like in golf: if you hit a ball, and it flies and flies and flies, you enjoy it.

Competition is good for any player as long as they react the right way and use it as motivation.