Top 115 Quotes & Sayings by Jurgen Klopp - Page 2

I'm not sure what you need first - the players believing or others believing in them - but in the end, both have to think it.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

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

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.

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?

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

When the players go home, I can't tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don't want to think, 'What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?'

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

My first win feels better than a draw!

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

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

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.

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

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

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

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

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm an absolutely normal guy.

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

I've thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it's playing together.

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.

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

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

Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like.

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

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

If you are young and open, and start loving football and really think about it then there are not a lot of alternatives to LFC. If you are a fan of another club it's okay too. But if you want to be a fan of 'the' club then it's Liverpool FC.

I didn't take many penalties but I never missed one. You just need to stick to your plan.

One of biggest rules in football is you have to avoid crosses.

I don't have a power nap when I have training. I take it so I am fresh again for the next session.

Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.

Basketball. I love it. I can't believe these giants move like kids. They are so flexible.

Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.

FC Liverpool is the best club in the world.

I met Pele once. I am not often nervous but in this moment I was shaking. He's a wonderful person.

If you lose a game, everyone asks why this player didn't play. If we win, nobody asks.

We have a bow and arrow and if we aim well, we can hit the target. The problem is that Bayern has a bazooka. The probability that they will hit the target is clearly higher.

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

To be really successful and win a title with a great club like Liverpool would be 100% one of the greatest things I could ever imagine.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball. The problem is the pressure you feel in a penalty shootout.

You can sleep between lessons but not during them.