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Jurgen Klopp [1967-0] German
Rank: 103
Coach, Football manager


Jürgen Norbert Klopp is a German football manager and former professional player who is the current manager of Premier League club Liverpool.

Romantic



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