Jurgen Klopp Quotes

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

Eventually, the truth comes out in sport and in life. When you win, you're praised, and when you lose, you're criticized. That's normal.

When you're not winning it's easy to complain!

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

When you're winning, you're a hero. When you're losing, you're a bum... I'm as bad as the fans, believe me. If they only knew how I hate losing and what we go through to try to win.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

I know how prone we are to censure and how ready to blame others for the non-fulfillment of our expectations. This is unbecoming in a generous people, and I grieve to see its expression. The general remedy for the want of success in a military commander is his removal. I have been prompted by these reflections more than once since my return from Pennsylvania to propose to Your Excellency the propriety of selecting another commander for this army.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

People's perception changes so fast. You win, and people say, 'Well, he had all of those sanctions at USC, and that's why he lost.' You lose, and, 'OK, he's a bad head coach, and he's just a good play-caller wherever he has been.'

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

You're the quarterback, if you lose games... it's the head coach and the quarterback. If you're not winning, it's on you.

When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a couple of games.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.