The top teams in particular always have opponents who are highly motivated. If they drop a couple of percentage points, perhaps sub-consciously, then it’s enough for the other team to capitalize.

Diego Simeone has done a great job with a lot of success.

As a player you just go and train – but as a coach or a trainer you think what you can do to improve the team, or specific parts of the game. You will do that on the field and after the training: you say that was the right or the wrong way.

In the stadium, when it is very noisy, you only have a limited influence as a coach. You need players on the field who understand the plan and who will talk to the guys when things are not going well.

The Premier League is a very interesting league and I can imagine it could be a big aim to be a big manager in the Premier League one day like Jurgen Klopp who is very successful.

I’m a football coach, not a model.

I watched not only English football but also Serie A, Primera Divison. I wanted to become a professional so it was important to watch games and look at what the best players in Europe do.

It’s extremely important to convey joy and have enthusiasm and positivity as a coach.

I think the Spanish way is the philosophy is similar to mines and in Spain they are very good at coaching young players for the team.

You have to play injury time like the 90 minutes.

Thirty per cent of coaching is tactics, 70% social competence.

The big Premier League clubs will only call me if I win a title in Germany.

I am one who coaches very aggressively and screams loudly so that my players can hear me.

I am very, very happy in my life but Bayern Munich would make me a little bit happier.

Although I’m the one who decides at the end of the day, I don’t just want the players to walk behind me like soldiers. They should have their own opinions and come forward with ideas.

We have to entertain the supporters. It’s not only about defending and ‘don’t concede.’ Perhaps most managers focus on defence.

It’s a question of five or 10 metres whether it’s a 4-4-2 or a 4-3-2-1; you only see teams adhering to that at kick-off and perhaps eight times during the game.

Everyone wants the biggest car, the biggest bank account, the biggest house. I don’t want any part of that.

When Pep played this incredibly attractive and multifaceted football in Barcelona, a lot was written and said about Barca‘s playing with the ball. But the real madness was counter-pressing. Most opponents never had the ball for longer than five seconds before they got smashed by this machine.

It’s always fascinating to watch Pep Guardiola teams.

I never want to change my offensive and attacking football because I love it and I love it when the fans have an emotional time in the stadium. So I will not change this. But if there is a time when I cannot win like this, then I will have to change.

Who shaped me the most was Thomas Tuchel. For the simple reason that he was my own trainer and the exchange was so much more intense. I can rate how he really thinks.

As as a coach you shouldn’t take yourself too seriously and never forget that the main protagonists are the players. Your own influence is sometimes less than one believes or hopes for.

I have always pointed out in many interviews that it is my dream to manage a world-class club and win trophies. Bayern are among these top clubs, but there’s also a few more.

You always defend your own team.

The feeling of pleasure and enjoyment from what we do is extremely important. It creates trust and respect when you walk into the dressing room or onto the pitch.

There’s pressure and it’s nerve-wracking, particularly in the Champions League. So you need to be able to free yourself to a certain extent and have fun in what you are doing.

I wear what I like.

I come from Landsberg am Lech, not so far from Munich.

I work like a baker. I mix things, put them in the oven and see if I like what comes out.

In the end my playing career would not have been as big as my career as a manager. I was a talented guy but I couldn’t imagine I would win a title as a player.

Always be an entertainer. I have rules in offence but it’s all about players finding the right spaces and solutions in the right moments.

It is always key for the manager to look at the character of a player. It is important… that you have a good social feeling with the players and a good connection.

You just have to turn on the news on the TV in the evening to realise straight away how unimportant you are as a Bundesliga coach.

All the fans who see me ride through the city are laughing. They can’t believe the manager of Leipzig is skateboarding! They like it. They never say, ‘He’s crazy.’ They recognise that you are living a normal life.

For me, being a top coach means more than just teaching football. That includes empathy, it means that you can speak to a group, that you can deal with the media – you have to be able to do all of that. I would not describe myself as blind in this regard, but a top coach also includes titles.

My hobbies are linked to the way I want to play soccer. I want to do different action things, like kite surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, freeriding with skis. I like these sports in my free time and it could be a big link with how I want to play soccer.

The big problem in our society is the obsession with maximisation.

I want to win every game – soccer, tennis, it doesn’t matter. When I play I am very loud. I am very emotional.

Pep and Jurgen tell me that the Premier League is crazy, a hard one.

I don’t have to be world coach of the year at some point, but I would like to be named one of the best coaches one day.

Coaching is more enjoyable than playing.

It’s cool to be a manager in my own country. I love it.

At every level I was promoted faster than I ever thought.

It can be very emotional to develop young guys and put them in the right direction. I love it. I love it when they are players for the youth team and then for the first time in their lives they play in a professional game.