Words matter. These are the best Michael Ballack Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Sometimes a new coach can find it not easy.
Sometimes you can lose games unluckily or the other team is better than you and has a great day as well. That can happen in football.
Experienced national players deserve at least some respect and loyalty.
If you want to work as a coach for longer term you need consistency, trust in the club and also the environment around the club.
I was able to turn my hobby into my profession, and I am thankful for that. But I have other interests beside football, and I can devote my time to them now.
Football has never been about young or old players – it is about good or bad players. If you’re 13 or 31 and good enough, you’re not too young or old.
I’ve always reflected on the game.
Things aren’t always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well.
Italian teams are difficult to beat even if they play away.
I don’t want to look back on my career at some point and say, ‘What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.’
As soon as I knew I was leaving Chelsea, our first thought was to return to Germany.
I want to prove myself at Chelsea and be successful in the Premiership and the Champions League.
It is something very special when you can win a league title, because it is the one that you play all year for.
A player can’t request on what position he wants to play, and it is the same with the captaincy. One should respect this, there are hierarchies.
To pass on your ideas and have an influence on a team really interests me.
We should integrate the quality of ex-players at the highest level more in football, especially in the youth sector. That is absolutely crucial for me.
In the summer, during the holidays, there would be 5,000 people each day at training with Bayern Munich and that makes it hard to concentrate.
Mesut is an amazing player.
The Premier League is a different kind of league, in terms of physical play.
Very good players have no problem moving to a different country.
When you a buy a player like Ozil, you know his strengths and Arsene Wenger knows, I think, where he is at his best.
Of course, South Americans are different from Europeans; I knew that when we played them.
I can imagine finishing my career at Chelsea.
I hope that people will remember me as a special footballer.
London is a brilliant city.
If you are a top player in England, the cult around you is bigger than in Germany.
The main reason to come to England and Chelsea was to play with a great team. Money and the chance to live in a city like London are additional factors.
If too much harmony dominates, then aggression can get lost.
I had a great career. But not to win a big international title is also part of my career.
Ancelotti showed in the past, that he can work with different teams and different players.
Titles are sometimes overrated.
Mario Gotze is a great player, but one of my favourites is Marco Reus, who is a fantastic player, and one of the very best.
Football is not always harmonious.
Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.
Pogba is a great talent.
It’s good for your career as a sportsman if you watch other professional sports – how they’re behaving and how they react in difficult situations.
When you’re 29 and you’ve already got family, it’s important that they feel comfortable.
As it is, in football if you are on top and winning games everyone wants to play well against you, put in more effort and beat you.
I played at the highest level throughout my career and I’m happy about that.
The first league game always feels different from the pre-season friendlies.
I was able to play for and captain my country.
Everybody has to play for their team and accept his role, even if you are in a defensive position sometimes. That is the key if you want to have success.
I was on the lucky side of life.
You always need time to adapt to a new manager. But in football if you don’t get a result, you are under pressure.
I like Daniel Sturridge a lot after playing with him at Chelsea.
I’ve learned to adapt to the pace of the English game and a different style of football in the Premier League.
It’s always disappointing to lose a final.
At 36 years old I can look back on a long and wonderful time in professional football, which I could never have dreamed of as a child.
That’s what counts for you as a player if you are on a high salary and you are earning, let’s say, enough money, which you normally can’t spend in your lifetime. It’s something you should really think about – where you play, what level you play, the audience.
It is really difficult, after Jose Mourinho, to work at Chelsea. It could cause a problem for any manager because Mourinho had such a relationship with the players and the fans.
I have said in the past that I would be happy to see out my career at Chelsea. I moved here to play in the best league in the world with one of the strongest teams.
I had a lot of emotional days at Chelsea, some that did not really end well, especially in the Champions League.
Having 18 or 20 class players is a luxurious problem, and it doesn’t mean that you have to play them all.
I would have loved to have had a farewell match, and would have wanted the DFB to make that offer. But certain people did not plan that for me. I have to accept that.
When you’re young it’s football, football, football. Then you get a family, kids come into things and you find you have a broader view of life. You get your inspiration from many different places.
Of course, you want to win something and be as successful as possible as an individual player. It is normal to look around and think, ‘With what club can I achieve that with?’
When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.
Playing for Chelsea I have to be more ruthless than in the German team, where I have managed to earn myself a different status over the years.
Germany is a nation which must always win.
I played in the Champions League constantly for 12 or 13 years in my career, and I reached only two finals. I know how difficult it is to get to that point.
