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

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

“Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.”

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

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

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

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

“I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.”

“I don't think I'm an unlucky person.”

“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.”

“I get a little bit emotional during a game!”

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

“I have no problem if someone wants to hug me - if I know him!”

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

“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.”

“I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.”

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

“I love pets, especially dogs.”

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

“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 understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.”

“I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.”

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

“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.”

“If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.”

“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.”

“I'm an absolutely normal guy.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 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?”

“It's absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!”

“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.”

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

“My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.”

“My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.”

“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.”

“My first win feels better than a draw!”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“That's what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.”

“The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.”

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

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

“The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool - it is not a usual.”

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

“The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.”

“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.”

“There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.”

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

“To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.”

“To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.”

“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.”

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

“We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”