Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German coach Jurgen Klopp.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Jürgen Norbert Klopp is a German professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Liverpool. He is widely regarded as one of the best managers in the world.
When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.
Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.
It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?
I only change things where I know about a situation. I'd never change just for change.
There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.
Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.
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.
I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.
We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
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.
To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.
I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.
I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.
You'd be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.
The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool - it is not a usual.
Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.
I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.
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.
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.
The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.
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 don't feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.
My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.
The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.
I don't think I'm an unlucky person.
I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.
In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.
For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.
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.
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.
When you play sports like tennis, you're alone, and that's a good school for life, but it's also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too - helping others in difficult moments.
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.
I get a little bit emotional during a game!
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.
My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.
I have no problem if someone wants to hug me - if I know him!
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.
People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don't walk on water.
What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.
I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.
I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.
Crazy players love me. I don't know why.
In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.
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.
When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.
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 am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.
I'm really a normal football manager.
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.
Only stupid people are changed by success.
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.
He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.
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.
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.
I love pets, especially dogs.
Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!
I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.
My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.
I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.