Jurgen Klopp Quotes

I'm not naive. It's football. You're going to make mistakes.

I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.

I love everything about this great game of football.

What fun would it be if we were perfect in everything that we did? Football is not about that.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

You would not want me on your football team.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

Soccer is a magical game.

I don't think the game should be perfect. It's 95 percent mistakes out there - you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you. It's a crazy, chaotic game.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

I love football; I enjoy it. That's why I've been in this game as many years as I have. I still like it. I get excited about it.

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

Anything is possible in football.

Football is magic for me: it is a special feeling every time I walk out on to the pitch and touch the ball. That is how I would define what magic is.

Everyone I've ever played has been flawed.

The ball is the most important thing on the field.

Sometimes football is not just.

Football is what we do. It's our job, it's a business.

I like to play football. I'm an aggressive player and also a leader.

I was a big kid and a big athlete, but let's be honest: I don't know diddly about football.