Thomas Muller Quotes

Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again.

The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

Every footballer enjoys having the ball at their feet. There are times in training you find yourself without the ball. I enjoy that side of it as well. If we can spend more time working with the ball then everyone will enjoy it.

To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It's a dog fight.

Jorginho is really suitable to the way I like to play. He is a player that has many good sides to him. He wants to work hard, and he's very fast in moving the ball, which is important for us, although there is also Cesc Fabregas, who has the same potential as Jorginho.

Centre-backs with good technique can move the ball forward, even when under pressure.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

If you're winning and can stay on the field offensively and move the ball, that's what we want.

Spalletti made a difference for me. He gives great importance to the details and, at minimum, wants the goalkeeper to know how to play with the ball at his feet.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

I like Jorginho, the way he plays and passes.

Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.

Playing me in different positions helped me to get in the head of the others players: to know what they're thinking, where and how they are going to move.

Guardiola likes footballers who can pass the ball, who have eyes for the best position and the right runs.

I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.

Being through the England set-up since I was a young lad, passing was the style of football I grew up with.

I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.

I like playing in the post, so a system that plays to my strengths is important.

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

In every country, you play a different style of football. Sometimes if it's really tactical, like it is in Spain, it seems like it slows down the tempo, but it's not really the case.

To score runs you have to be pragmatic.

Dominating the midfield is the most important thing in modern football. To succeed, you have to be good at everything.

When you put pressure on the paint, you not only score but you force the whole defense to collapse and you can make easy plays to hit shooters.

Pastore has so many qualities. Every pass he makes puts our forwards into position and we create a lot of opportunities thanks to him.