Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Ralph Hasenhuttl

Sometimes I forget to shake hands with the other manager. I apologise. I'm learning, but I have a very good relationship with my players and also the crowd.

I guess they draw the comparisons with Jurgen because, just like him, I tend to live the technical area and I am as emotional when celebrating.

I am always challenging myself.

We have four parts of our game: working against the ball; in possession; losing the ball; winning the ball. If you are good in all four parts, you have a good chance of winning.

To take over a bottom club is the best thing that can happen to you as a coach. There's a significantly higher chance that you can turn things around than failing.

It's better to be incognito because otherwise everyone is talking to you because they know you - and you can't concentrate on the training because everyone is talking to you.

I was always a little bit compared to Jurgen because my core of working is working against the ball.

We will have a lot of video sessions and it will get mind-blowing for the guys. The training sessions are forcing you to be really concentrated and therefore I want them to discuss it, for them to come to me. It is all about input, it's about mindset.

It's not about being happy, it's about being successful.

If you want to be ahead of a team that never loses, that's not easy.

I am a manager who tries to be respectful and also very demanding.

In football, there are no guarantees.

If you play an intense way, an aggressive way, we are good, we can score, we can create chances.

It would be worse if I have players who are happy if they sit on the bench, because that doesn't mean that we develop our game.

I can't take a view of the future of every player.

It was something I always wanted to do: see how other people work.

We are all ambitious but important for me first is to have a stable spine to the team.

Our philosophy is to give the young players a chance for the future because they are our future.

We show a player every good thing he does for the team, but if he makes a bad thing for the team, he will also hear about that, in front of the other players.

Our only objective is to find solutions to get us through the challenges we face each day.

I am a very emotional guy.

For us it's important that we should become a team that is not easy to play against.

I'm always challenging myself, looking forward I'm not afraid of anything.

The top clubs in the Premier League benefit very much from the fact that there are six teams on a very high level. They have so many games against each other so that they practically play Champions League the whole year. That helps them very much to persist in the international games.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

My goal is to get my name known in the Premier League. I want to put my footsteps in the snow.

It costs me a lot to stay calm during a game.

I get enthused by good football because I love this sport. I don't care about which jersey the teams are wearing or which sponsor pays them.

We've got to get better and keep making even more progress.

I play the piano.

You always have to reflect how you can become an awkward team to play against.

I want to be my own character.

The players know what they have with Southampton, what they can expect from us, and that's the main part.

Roy Hodgson is a very good manager with a clear plan.

I trained with Chelsea for two weeks under Glenn Hoddle when they were in the relegation zone - it was a long time ago. And I also trained for Bolton when I was a young player. I was very clear, very soon, that I was missing a lot for that level.

To work for the team and for the success of the team. That is more important than one ego.

To be honest helps you a lot to not waste time. It's also the way I help the players most. It doesn't matter if it is the captain or the last reserve player, I try to be honest.

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want guarantees buy a washing machine.

I played until 37-years-old and my last three or four years I learnt the most.

I enjoy it very much to work in the best league in the world.

I think it's not so difficult to get a good atmosphere in St Mary's.

If you want to be a part of a team I manage, it is important to put your ego to one side.

Every opposition needs to be played in a different way and the formation depends on the opposition's strengths.

We have six teams at the level of Bayern Munich in the Premier League.

If you want to be in front of Bayern, you have to play a perfect season.

Statistically, the chance of creating a goal is higher within 10 seconds of winning the ball.

To take something in the Emirates Stadium is far away from being easy but we don't think about that.

My goal is to get my name known here in the Premier League.

The higher we are, the more the focus will be on us and that means our opponents are going to try even harder against us.

When I left Leipzig I was thinking about my next step, and I want to stand in front of a new team, new language, to get developed personally and in my view of football. That's why I made the decision to come to Southampton.

There are some games that are very special for the fans and they are really looking forward for these games, but for us as a manager in the moment it's not in our focus.

As a player I had a few idols but that's not really interesting any more. I was a striker and focusing on guys like Marco van Basten but as a coach I want to make my own footsteps.

My talent in playing football was not the highest but I was very hard-working, interested to learn and get better, and this focus made me better and better.

I always challenge myself.

Jurgen has a very proactive way to play, he set marks in Germany with his kind of football and that really influenced my style.

I had not so much talent. I was a striker who could score, but running was not my main goal.

I'm looking forward, not afraid of anything.

I have heard of worse fates than succeeding the longest-serving manager in England.

I want to bring the players to their limits.