Top 90 Quotes & Sayings by Niko Kovac

It's not easy to play against a team with a man down.

My job is to keep my players fit and fresh for the important games.

There are a lot of good players all over the world.

I am an optimist, not a dreamer.

For me personally, Pep Guardiola is the best coach in the world.

It's all about togetherness and to pay the other the necessary respect. If you do that, then we all would feel better. It is not always a taking but also a giving in both directions.

I don't underestimate any opponent.

Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in detail.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

Real Madrid without Cristiano Ronaldo are, of course, not what they were with Ronaldo, but they're still a very good team.

When you fall, you always have the opportunity to get up.

Mistakes happen, but if you make them in the Bundesliga, you will be punished.

To say a player is past it at 29, 30 isn't right.

I can't play 50 players.

Of course, the attacking players get the attention because they score the goals, score nice goals, and those are the moments that remain in memory. But I wish that other players who are not in the foreground, who still perform well for their club or association, get more recognition.

I question everything I do.

In the emotion, you say things that you regret the next day.

A lot of players are naturally talented, but you also have to work to improve yourself.

It is not for nothing that titles are decided at the back.

Fortunately, I had some very good coaches.

We want to win all of our matches and focus on ourselves.

We just must make sure we give everything we can to become champions.

We need to be confident, but do not look back; look at what's coming.

Every player at Bayern Munich wants to play and should play - they all have good reasons.

We have to learn from the past.

Life writes the best stories.

I have always said that I am a friend of VAR.

Victories are always important.

Playing for the national team is not the same as playing for your club.

The expectation in Munich is always high, this expectation I have towards myself personally and to my players. I was aware of that when I signed with Bayern.

For the players, these top, top, top games or these top, top, top events - like a World Cup or a European Championship - are not common but, of course, something special.

We should not always discuss whether or not a player is angry.

We want to chase and seal the championship title. The decisive thing is to be at the top at the end of the season.

There is only one Messi. No matter what I say, it's too little. You have to shower him with superlatives.

You have seen it: You can put something into the world, and all of a sudden, everybody believes that. Like throwing a fishing rod and the fish bite into.

When you're together, you can do anything, be it in sports or in society.

Morality is very important. We have to be together.

In football you have to look forward.

Those who know me know I'm always a fighter.

I am the last person to start celebrating.

It's not easy to score three goals in 70 minutes.

There will always be cases where one player plays, and another doesn't.

Football provides the most beautiful stories.

We were raised as Christians, and religion plays an important role for us.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Competition means the best player will play.

At Bayern, you always go into a season with the goal to win titles.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary.

I never panic.

My whole life, I have had to fight.

In Germany, it is normal, when games end, you shake hands with your players.

Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.

For the top stars, it's just more appealing to go to the Premier League than to Bundesliga.

The players who play have to perform. If they don't, then they will be replaced. That has always been the case.

Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.

What was good yesterday might be bad the next morning, so you have to keep calm.

I know how the game works. If I field one, then the other complains. It's always the same.

We cannot play soccer without hands. You need your arms while running.

Attacking is the tough part in football; defending is relatively easy.