Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Julian Nagelsmann - Page 2

I am very, very happy in my life but Bayern Munich would make me a little bit happier.

I lived in Munich for many years.

Football is actually pretty limited and there are only really four phases: When you have the ball yourself, when the opponent has the ball and when you win the ball or lose the ball. That is football, really, there isn't more to it.

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

If you go to Real Madrid or Barcelona, the fans, the media and the decision-makers don't give you the time to grow into that.

Tuchel saved me. I was sick of football. I had sacrificed my whole youth for football and then, bang, overnight, it was all over. I didn't want anything to do with football. But when he asked me to become opposition scout it was a win-win situation for everyone.

I am one who coaches very aggressively and screams loudly so that my players can hear me.

I don't think much of automatisms, because they assume that a situation is always the same, otherwise the process no longer works. But that doesn't fit the reality with 22 players on the pitch. If the opponent is only half a metre to the left, the player suddenly doesn't know what he has to do.

In the stadium, when it is very noisy, you only have a limited influence as a coach. You need players on the field who understand the plan and who will talk to the guys when things are not going well.

There is a group dynamic and a team behaves in principle like a team of horses: there are always leaders.

If you go to Real Madrid, there's no time to improve as a manager. You don't have a chance to be a better manager, you already have to be the best.

I come from Landsberg am Lech, not so far from Munich.

It's normal if Real Madrid call you, you think about it.

The players notice that you love football. You still like to have a ball at your feet in training. Do you come to work with a joie de vivre? I can't give off the impression that I am under brutal pressure or fear that something could go wrong.

When Pep played this incredibly attractive and multifaceted football in Barcelona, a lot was written and said about Barca's playing with the ball. But the real madness was counter-pressing. Most opponents never had the ball for longer than five seconds before they got smashed by this machine.

I think it's important to be completely transparent with the players.

I have never made a secret of the fact I am excited about the coaching position at Bayern Munich and that I would be happy to take on this job if this unique opportunity should arise.

In football we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously.

Winning is what matters and winning is entertaining.

As a player you just go and train - but as a coach or a trainer you think what you can do to improve the team, or specific parts of the game. You will do that on the field and after the training: you say that was the right or the wrong way.

When I became a coach, I began to admire Pep Guardiola.

Bayern has always played a prominent role in my dreams.

I don't have to be world coach of the year at some point, but I would like to be named one of the best coaches one day.

Coaching is more enjoyable than playing.

As a manager you have to look forward.

I think the Spanish way is the philosophy is similar to mines and in Spain they are very good at coaching young players for the team.

Who shaped me the most was Thomas Tuchel. For the simple reason that he was my own trainer and the exchange was so much more intense. I can rate how he really thinks.

I like to be the normal Julian Nagelsmann. Doesn't matter if I'm the manager of RB Leipzig or the manager of a youth team. I hope that if you ask anybody of my team in my former days or now they say 'yes, he is still the same guy.'

I often deliberately overwhelm my players. If I give them 10 things a day and they learn four of them, I'm happier than if I stick to the learning theory where the goal is a maximum of five things per day and then they only remember two.

For me, Mourinho is an extreme coach with focus on results who is not very concerned with glamour on the pitch. He puts the result above everything and if you get so many titles doing that, it is certainly not a wrong way.

You just have to turn on the news on the TV in the evening to realise straight away how unimportant you are as a Bundesliga coach.

From the outside, you often only see the person who posts pictures of his yacht. But what Sami Khedira told me about Ronaldo's professional approach to work, for example, is impressive. He has to be an incredible training animal, the first to come, the last to leave. He is also a very warm guy. That mix is extremely exciting.

You can only be successful if you have fun and don't get too stressed.

I never want to change my offensive and attacking football because I love it and I love it when the fans have an emotional time in the stadium. So I will not change this. But if there is a time when I cannot win like this, then I will have to change.

I watched not only English football but also Serie A, Primera Divison. I wanted to become a professional so it was important to watch games and look at what the best players in Europe do.

If you want to get to the top shelf, you have to win something.

My philosophy is to attack the opponents near their own goal because your own way to the goal is not as along, if you get the ball higher up.

I personally experienced which exercises Tuchel did in training - that shaped me.

I would call myself a good manager.

You have to play injury time like the 90 minutes.