Top 66 Thomas Muller Quotes

It is difficult to say how muscle injuries occur.

You always intend to do this and that, but then you have to go out and do it on the pitch.

I know that I make technical mistakes from time to time. It’s one of the aspects of my game that I’ve been working on for years. I think I’ve managed to reduce the number of those technical mistakes to a minimum, but occasionally, they happen. On the other hand, I do have moments of technical brilliance.

There is no B-Team at Bayern Munich.

While it would be lovely to play well every week, that is simply not going to happen.

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it’s not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

The most important thing in Guardiola’s theory is to play football, and this always stays the same. The basic idea is always the same, but different opponents offer different space which you can use to play in.

I didn’t have one single hero. Many footballers I looked up to and said, ‘Wow, I want to be like them,’ but be like them not just as a person but also for their skills.

What’s good for you one day will not necessarily still be good for you the day after.

Louis van Gaal and I have a relationship that goes beyond that which is normal between a player and a coach.

I see myself as a team player.

As professionals, you always have to perform to the top of your ability.

You have to adapt and find your niche, in terms of the type of player you can become, both on and off the pitch. I always knew I’d have no chance against a 1.90m, 90kg defender in a duel, so the key is to avoid these situations altogether. You have to pick your space and time.

You cannot plan for the Champions League: the competitors are always overwhelming. It is a big new challenge every year.

I play with great players.

We cannot always shine and play to our very best, but as long as we win, it doesn’t matter.

Football is the best team sport in the world, and it is good to hear that more and more kids are playing football in India.

I have spent much of my youth on artificial pitches. The body can feel a little heavier, but the ball is there quicker and cleaner.

Football is simple but very complicated.

I try to help the team, and I know what my qualities are, how I can use it to be successful at the highest level. That does not always look so elegant.

I’m a mix between a striker and a midfielder.

I play football because it the best thing on earth for me.

I like playing Italian teams. To me, they are the fairest sportsmen of them all. I don’t agree with the Italy stereotypes – I trust in what I have experienced and witnessed.

I know that a lot of German clubs are unhappy with the Premier League clubs’ spending, but I think it is something good for all clubs in the end.

For players, during our active career, it is always difficult to talk about coaches – whether it is former or a current.

Football is a game with tight results in which you don’t need to be the dominant team; if you’re a bit lucky and make the right decision at the right time, then you can be as successful as well.

Germany are a tournament team. I don’t know why that is, perhaps the mentality. We always look forward to tournaments. We also believe we can always perform well.

Ronaldo and Messi, in particular, are above everybody else.

I don’t take the ball in the middle of the pitch and dribble past six guys.

As a player, you never want a penalty shoot-out, because it is a lottery to some extent. You’d rather win in 90 minutes.

Sometimes I watch past goals, but I don’t watch them because I think that it’ll help me to score in the next game.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

I define myself by efficiency and straightforwardness.

I try to be available for the fans, but sometimes when I’m with my family, wife, and friends, I try to protect my private life.

I have different qualities and no problem with that. Of course, my style of football is not like Messi’s or Neymar’s.

When the team’s not playing well offensively, it’s always a problem for me because I’m not an individualistic player.

Transfer fees don’t show which player is better. It’s only a number necessary for a club to get a player.

We’re FC Bayern, and we’ll always send out a competitive team.

In the end, we should not forget that playing football is our job. So people should accept that wages will always play a role in a player’s decision-making.

It’s quite a feeling to be living your dream, and it seems easy to be like I am.

There’s no club out there that is really a step up when you play for Bayern Munich. At most, you can join a club that acts at the same level.

I’m not a super dribbler.

We are footballers, not artists.

I just try not to pretend to be something I’m not.

I became a professional footballer because I love football.

When we’re up 1-0 after 88 minutes, I don’t sprint to the sidelines to take a throw-in – I expect that I and my team will be smart.

‘Space finder’ is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it’s followed me ever since.

There is no room for selfish behaviour at Bayern.

You can’t always expect us to trash our opponents.

I try to be a player who is there for the team, even off the pitch.

At Bayern, the journey is always headed for titles.

You can’t forget it is a business and not just playing football for a hobby.

I hate running.

Van Gaal was always very intensive with his tactics. You had to work more with your head than your legs.

Nothing will push me away from Bayern.

In football, you always look forward, and it’s about the next game you play.

I am not a guy who gets scared.

At FC Bayern, the Bundesliga title is always the first priority.

As a striker, you always try to convert your chances, give everything when training.

I will always try to stay on the right path, listen only to my coaches and my inner voice. If there is good advice from journalists, I will take that as well.

The pressure is always there with Bayern, but we can cope with it.

The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.

Whenever Germany lose or play badly, there are 1,000 reasons. And no matter how many questions there are, we will never make everyone happy.

As a footballer, you always want to win.

When our positioning and ball game and passing is not that good, then my game is struggling as well. I can score from set pieces and so on, but I have to be involved in the combinations, make my runs without the ball, go deep.

In this system, I’ve always played in the position behind the striker. I also don’t enjoy being classed as a striker – I don’t see myself as one.