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