Manuel Neuer Quotes

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.

You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.

I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.

I think I could take a job as an NFL scout.

Back home in Germany, football people think very highly of Arsene Wenger. They listen to what he has to say and admire his achievements.

It's always good to have more than one player who can take free-kicks or penalties.

Many players in the French squad play in the Premier League or have played in the Premier League, so I knew about the level.

When I arrived at Bayern he asked me: 'How are you? Are you ready to learn how to play football?' Before, I thought the coach's job was just to set up the team. However, with Guardiola it's something different. He is addicted to football and because of that he is a phenomenon.

Penalties are easy if you score, but in open play, we create chances as well.

My dad was an ex-player, so he knew what he was saying. When we talk about football, he knows what he's talking about. We can talk all evening.

Inzaghi was one that I really liked to watch because he was completely different to how I played, but he gave me something I didn't have and actually helped me out a lot. Probably a lot of the goals I score now have come from him.

I was such a big football fan in general, I just watched as many games as I could and I picked up things from every game.

I've been in football since I was eight. Of course I know what I'm talking about.

Frank de Boer definitely showed in the Netherlands that he's a good coach.

I've known John Toshack a long, long time because I grew up with his son Cameron. If he was English, there is no doubt that he would be mentioned in the same breath as someone like Terry Venables.

When you know how to read football, it is easier for some players.

It is good, it is better to be voted by the players - they know everything about football.

You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area.

I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.

If I haven't played with a player before and I don't know anything about them, the more they tell me about themselves, the better I will be able to judge how they think and how they play.

I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.