If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice.

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

You have to work more than your adversary.

The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.