We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
Jurgen KloppRead
Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.
Interpretation
Success is measured not just by good days but by how well you handle challenges.
This quote emphasizes the importance of resilience and performance during tough times. While anyone can experience good times and enjoy success, it is one's ability to maintain focus and effectiveness when faced with adversity that truly defines capability and character.
In practice
This quote could be used in a sports team meeting to inspire players during a tough season.
We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.
When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.
I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.
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.
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.
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.
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