Football Quotes by Niko Kovac

Fortunately, I had some very good coaches.

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In football you have to look forward.

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The pros stretch their bodies to the limit.

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Dembele is a great player.

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Competition means the best player will play.

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Victories are always important.

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Football provides the most beautiful stories.

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Pulisic is a top player.

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Attacking is the tough part in football; defending is relatively easy.

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For me personally, Pep Guardiola is the best coach in the world.

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It's not easy to play against a team with a man down.

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We should not always discuss whether or not a player is angry.

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Playing for the national team is not the same as playing for your club.

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I prefer the 4-2-3-1 formation and stick to it but have my own interpretations.

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You build up the opponent, and you lose confidence.

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Every player at Bayern Munich wants to play and should play - they all have good reasons.

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Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in…

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There is only one Messi. No matter what I say, it's too little. You have to shower him with superlatives.

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The players who play have to perform. If they don't, then they will be replaced. That has always been the case.

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Just because a coach does not get out the clubs after a match but instead focuses on what he says, that's not…

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If teams play Bayern, they bring another attitude to the pitch than if they play teams who are not Bayern.

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The money's there in England. They try to gather the best players. We do it differently here at Bayern. We have no…

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You can't manage every footballer the same. Of course you'd love to, but it doesn't work like that. We're not robots.

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If, as Bayern, you lose 2-0 at Hertha, nobody believes you that you can still be satisfied with the performance.

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If research can help us discover cures for diseases, it surely can improve a football team. Whether it's data analysis or biomechanics,…

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Of course, the attacking players get the attention because they score the goals, score nice goals, and those are the moments that…

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I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

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We want to win all of our matches and focus on ourselves.

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We just must make sure we give everything we can to become champions.

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I don't need players who won't track back, and I'm certainly not keen on specialists.

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Mistakes happen, but if you make them in the Bundesliga, you will be punished.

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It's not easy to score three goals in 70 minutes.

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My job is to keep my players fit and fresh for the important games.

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For the top stars, it's just more appealing to go to the Premier League than to Bundesliga.

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At Bayern, you always go into a season with the goal to win titles.

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There will always be cases where one player plays, and another doesn't.

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Every player brings something from their own culture into the collective.

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A lot of players are naturally talented, but you also have to work to improve yourself.

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We want to chase and seal the championship title. The decisive thing is to be at the top at the end of…

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Real Madrid without Cristiano Ronaldo are, of course, not what they were with Ronaldo, but they're still a very good team.

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