Jurgen Klopp Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Jurgen Klopp:
I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.
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Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.
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It is my job to help the players react better.
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To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.
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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.
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I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.
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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?
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Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like.
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I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.
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The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool - it is not a usual.
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I'm an absolutely normal guy.
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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.
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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.
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I've thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it's playing together.
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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.
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I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.
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I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.
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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.
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He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.
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I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.
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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.
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I get a little bit emotional during a game!
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In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.
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It's absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.
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For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.
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My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.
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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.
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The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.
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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.
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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.
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I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.
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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.
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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.
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I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.
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There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.
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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.
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I have no problem if someone wants to hug me - if I know him!
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My first win feels better than a draw!
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I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.
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You'd be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.
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There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.
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Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.
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The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.
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Crazy players love me. I don't know why.
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I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.
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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.
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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.
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The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football - it's the top challenge.
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I don't feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.
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To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.
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People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don't walk on water.
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If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.
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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.
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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.
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What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.
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That's what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.
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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.
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The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.
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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.
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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.
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My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.
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It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?
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I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.
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Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.
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I'm really a normal football manager.
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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?'
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We don't want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.
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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.
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Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There's no advantage or disadvantage for either side.
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I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.
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The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.
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In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.
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The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.
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When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.
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I only change things where I know about a situation. I'd never change just for change.
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I love pets, especially dogs.
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I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.
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Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!
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I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.
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In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.
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We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
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I don't think I'm an unlucky person.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.
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I'm looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It's a special club.
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If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.
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When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.
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Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.
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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.
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I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.
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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.
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As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!
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Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.
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