I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I mean, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

I don't feel pressure.

To sing the national anthem is wonderful, but it's far from the sign of a strong team and it is absolutely no indication of a lack of desire to fight.

I take sporting criticism on board very keenly and with deference, and I also try to make decisions based on it.

I consider 100 wins to be better than 100 defeats.

I had the idea to bring an experimental squad to the Confederations Cup in 2014.

Italy is one of the great footballing nations, with whom we have a great sporting rivalry.

I want to establish an error culture in friendlies. We can make mistakes, learn from them and correct them.

There has never been even a hint of an expression of racism in the national team.

Sometimes you learn the most from your defeats.

For us, for me as national coach, the Nations League is a good invention.

Static strikers do not exist anymore.

You shouldn't be scared of putting together a team made up of experts who are better than the coach in some aspects... So for me personally, it was important to have people in my environment who discuss things with me, who give me their opinions, but who are loyal to me and who are reliable.

A coach needs to be a psychologist, because during a tournament you're looking after a team of players which is being watched closely and put under a lot of pressure.

I think the core job of a coach is to select the right players for a tournament. You need players who are mentally and physically fit, who are able to deal with difficult moments.

From my point of view, it is not the coach who becomes world champion, it is a team. Not just the players who played, but the whole squad, and also the team behind the team. Because if you want to achieve success, the whole team has to work perfectly, like a machine, and all the pieces of the puzzle need to fit together into one picture.

We need to be one team on the pitch.

Midfielders must do everything.

You can play happy-go-lucky football against Brazil in a friendly but not in a tournament.

Ozil is a great distributor and does a lot of running.

I don't think we should compare club teams with international teams because they are different cups of tea.

Sometimes it's natural to do the safe pass, the no-frills thing, to pass it back to the goalkeeper. But I want them to do the daring thing.

I don't think it's such a bad thing to have internal debate between coach and leading players.