Top 55 Julian Nagelsmann Quotes

You have to play injury time like the 90 minutes.

It is important to have face-to-face meetings, so when the players have things on their mind we talk. It is important to have a good relationship with your players. If they like you and love you – and the other way around – you will be successful.

I like to be the normal Julian Nagelsmann. Doesn’t matter if I’m the manager of RB Leipzig or the manager of a youth team. I hope that if you ask anybody of my team in my former days or now they say ‘yes, he is still the same guy.’

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

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.

Every player is motivated by different things and needs to be addressed accordingly.

When I became a coach, I began to admire Pep Guardiola.

I always involve my players in the decision-making; that’s very important to me.

Counter-pressing is a very important topic. Putting pressure onto opponents almost every single minute so we can win the ball… but that is only one thing; we need to find a good balance between ball possession and attacking moments.

When I analyse an opponent I do not look at the results. I try to find out how they score goals, concede, build up play, counter attack, counter-press, other things. So the result doesn’t count for much.

I think it’s important to be completely transparent with the players.

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

I have a lot of interests outside of football like motorcross, skiing and enjoying experiences with my family.

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

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.

There is a group dynamic and a team behaves in principle like a team of horses: there are always leaders.

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.

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.

When I get a new player, we do tests about his character and personality because it is very important to find out about the things he loves to do on and off the pitch.

It’s important as a manager that you feel a club believes in you and your methods. Oliver Mintzlaff and Ralf Rangnick showed me this.

I wear what I like.

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

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.

I personally experienced which exercises Tuchel did in training – that shaped me.

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

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.

You always defend your own team.

You can only be successful if you have fun and don’t get too stressed.

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.

I know it’s very tough in England. I’ve been reading the interviews of Klopp and Guardiola about the intense fixture schedule and the demands on players and staff.

I’m a football coach, not a model.

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

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

In football we shouldn’t take ourselves too seriously.

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.

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

I’m not very fond of the first official act with a player being to immediately discuss his contractual situation.

I’ve said many times: Barcelona is a beautiful city, a beautiful club.

Mourinho and I have similarities in our careers. We didn’t play professionally but our way of playing is not the same.

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

Jurgen Klopp has the gift of developing clubs and improving people.

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.

If you want to get to the top shelf, you have to win something.

I was at Hoffenheim under contract, there was a clause – I could only leave in 2019. When that clause took effect, there was no position free in Dortmund.

I often deliberately overwhelm my players. If I give them 10 things a day and they learn four of them, I’m happier than if I stick to the learning theory where the goal is a maximum of five things per day and then they only remember two.

I would call myself a good manager.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I watch a lot of Liverpool and Manchester City.

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.

When the lads see that the coach loves football and believes in what he says – he’d really prefer to be playing with the team – that creates a sense of enthusiasm among the players and trust in the coach. They notice that you’re one of them.

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.

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.