Jurgen Klopp Quotes

To be successful you have to find a good balance between offence and defence, to work without the ball, but our main tactic is to work with the ball, to be in possession.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

The ball is the most important thing on the field.

When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

Football is about balance.

For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.

It is important to have tough and strong players to win back the ball and give consistency to a team.

I've been double-teamed my whole life. I know when a double team's coming. I know what side the guy's coming from. I know how to dribble out of it.

Football is a really simple game, and the most important thing, in any formation, is that the players do their jobs, not the formation which they play in.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.