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Jürgen Klopp

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“So, and here's the problem should you be happy theoretically with position six? Maybe this year and a bill on that. So find a reason. Find a reason to enjoy the situation again. Find a reason to enjoy a one-nil victory, two-nil victory at home. Whoever against whoever, Southampton, try to enjoy that. Really, be happy, go home and not listening to others who tell you then. That's what we had years ago when we decided after a draw against West Brom. To say thank you to the supporters. We stand in front of the cop and hold his other hand and said thank you and then the press conference Tony Poole said what the world we are living in, when Liverpool with the money they spend celebrated point against West Brom.”
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“So Liverpool has an incredible squad. Yes, are there 100% happy right now with the three defeats? No, probably not, but incredible squad. Arsenal Incredible Squad. City City. I mean, anyone to strike back, there's already three clubs. Chelsea. They're in that time when everybody thought, do they have an overview about their transfer market? Do they know who they own and who they loan and stuff like this? Obviously somehow it pays off. So they have already five clubs. They are above you. Are you happy with position six? No”
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“But there must be something now look it's a situation, a moment and a situation where Crystal Pallas and Bournemouth is massively different to the situation for United. If Bournemouth wins the game one-0 and doesn't perform particularly well, you take it and you go on. I'm not sure you would read an article in the newspaper about it, just win it and go, but United is united. United each step is under focus. And I'm like, no, he didn't, they won, but he didn't play great. So they win a game and then somebody doesn't perform well. So pick him out and go for him full throughout. You think, wow. So the coach has to pick him up again. No, no, it's all right. Stuff like this. And the next one. And they're different, completely. In the time you try to sort your problems, all the other clubs improve their situations.”
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“Good that we have the money. I lost the play I wanted to work with for the next 10 years, if you want. It was not that I thought, and we can invest it. Yeah, we invested it smartly. That's true, but it's not that we found a player for the position and saw that that's we had to sort differently, but we found two really solid, solid becoming world-class players with Alison and Van Dai. That was for the future to go from there. And now that's the difference, I think.”
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“To plan my own life mid and long term as much as I can do that and especially the destiny and the future of a football club. Player can score a goal, can score five goals, will never sort the problems if you have real problems. And I don't know the United Problems, but that Liverpool was the same. It's not about that. On the day when we lost sold Phil Cotinu, that was not the day when I thought,”
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“Little bits like that being now in a situation probably united in the years when they were not happy they would buy the time from that time becoming second oh remember that in that time second was not good enough and now you are not even close to that but that's not a manited story for me it's just a football story it's always like that in the foot in a world of football you win You are the greatest. You lose, you know nothing about the game. You draw, you're boring. So you're constant and it's only about your own idea what you really want to do and where you want to go. And everything in life is about development. Today, you weren't the same 10 years ago. I was not the same 10 years ago. So it means the time between then and now counts. So if it counts for me the next 10 years do the same. So it's important what I do. It's important what I see in a year, two, three.”
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“You have two days later another problem. You know it, but it's such fun out. Just find a solution for that problem. There's no mid, no long term. Okay, we have to deal with that for another day or two, and then we can sort it. And that means in our sense we have to deal with that for a year or two, denied it, and then we can make a big step. And this, in our case, a football case, contracts are running out, player goes anyway. We can sell him. We can do this. Because you are in such a rush all the time just because you want to or have to win the next game.”
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“I didn't think a second. Since I joined Liverpool about Bortman United did right or wrong, I just did. So it's like I buy into a situation. So I went to Liverpool and that moment you became our opponent, not my enemy, but a very important opponent. One who is much more fun to beat than maybe and like others with Everton. I know so many Everton fans in Liverpool lived there for nine years. So I know so many people have great people. So absolutely. But then you go to the game and you think, oh my God, that's something different. Not I make that up. It's like that. But I really didn't think. But what always in football is like this. And again, like in life, you have a problem and you only try to find a solution for now knowing”
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“Not at all. And I sat there and it was like, I am not sure. That's not for me. And then the pure Pure football project. Comes up with Liverpool and a sensational talk to Mike Gordon. That's really important as well. He is the owner. I know John and Tom, of course, as well, but Mike was responsible for us. I wanted after that talk, I want to be his friend. He's such a good guy. So that's how it started. And in the end, it was pretty special.”
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“I didn't want to bring back, I don't know, policy sensational player. My God, but these things don't work usually. But these kind of things, all Christiano, my God, we all know that he's the best player together with Messi, the best player in the world. But bringing back never helps. In that time in 2013, it was obviously not about Cristiano, maybe about Paolo. I'm not even sure when don't get the numbers together, but it was just the idea is we bring the best players together and then let's go.”
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“It's just typical. We are now not a private space. So there are some reasons what the people in that conversation told me, which I didn't like. So United was that big. We get all the players we want. We are like this, we get him, we get him, we get him, we get him. And I was sitting there. It was not my project. It didn't feel like it was wrong time, but on top of that, it was not my project.”
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“No, no, no. He's not there anymore, the guy who negotiated that. So there are now other people in charge. It's long ago, long ago.”
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“No, no, no, they tried. It was wrong time, wrong moment. For me, I had a contract at Dortmund. I wouldn't have left, not really for nobody in that time. They just needed a manager, but the manager they wanted in that case now was one of a few options, I think.”
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“Yet I spoke to them So in the year when Sir Alex retired, they spoke to me, yeah, yeah, of course they were interested at one point. So I was that time, I would have been interested. So I was a young, I had a sensational team at Dortmund. My God. So somebody, they probably thought, what is he doing there? Later on, I heard that my players, Hando, Adam Alana, James Mellon, so that they flew to To real Madrid, and we played a semi final in the chamiseaque to watch us and wanted to see what is Dortmund doing? My God, what a football that is. I mean, you cannot get accomplishments really. It's really good.”
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“Come on. If you are not a Man United fan, you know what Liverpool means to people. They loved it. We fell instantly in love with that club.”
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“Oh, in that moment not, but in the summer I had a lot of offers like before when I finished at Dortmund. But in that moment it was just Liverpool. But it was kind of destiny because I didn't want to. It was not, we were on a family holiday in Lesbon with the two boys. Ula and I is sitting there. Phone goes. My agent, why is he calling? Boys look at my face as he Both yes, the boys. Yeah. And Ola looks... What did she say? And she didn't see my lips well when I spoke. What? And realized, oh, God, we start again. Before she knew, we will go to Liverpool.”
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“It would be like that. All the people running around, all the happy people that win all the time. Nobody wins all the time. Nobody does. So it's all about dealing with the things you want and not get. And then you want it more or not anymore or whatever. So the moments were not great, but I learned it here. Doing it that day changed. The destiny of the club of Meinznufund. That's how it is. My destiny, the player's destiny, changed everything. So we wanted it that hard, but we learned before we have to try harder. And that's what I always took. If you don't get the result you want, Try Try”
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“It's not that I knew that always, but we spoke about very early, what may be the person I am, these people, of course, mom, dad. My faith as well so and I knew Always that I am not here to get everything. I am here to give everything soft. That doesn't help in a moment when you fail for a point. But in the general understanding as a person, of course, it helps. So I'm not surprised that I fail. I don't see myself as a constant winner in my mind. I see myself as a constant tryer. I don't know constant winners, but there might be some out there. I just can't imagine a world”
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“The Bundesliga. Yeah. But before winning that, I learned. How to lose. This is very important, I would say. I think that's again to learn Even though you want to be as successful as somehow possible. You have to accept that from time to time you lose. And then when you then keep going, you have a good chance. If you learn from it, a defeat is a defeat if you don't learn from it. If you learn from it, it's a very, very important information. And obviously in football, we have a lot of opportunities to get beat and opportunities to learn from it. But this was the biggest relief in my life, not happiness. I was just pure relief. The pressure was mounting. I was crazy. Not only on myself, nobody, not from outside, I don't even know, but the outside world thought. To make it happen that year. It was really special”
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“Before I To get here, these are tears, the tears the year and two years before were not for the same reason. So you probably know we didn't get promoted for a point and a goal. First a point, then a goal. And then this happened. That was the first day when it really went well.”
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“The thing is, I don't go for him and tell him how can you write that or whatever? So I said, no, somebody told me so I know it. Important really, but come on, tell the whole team what he wanted to say. And then Not great in that situation. I don't like to bring people in that, but I think that's a deserved punishment for something like that. Actually, the effect is nobody ever did it again because nobody wants to be in that situation in a dressing room sitting there and be the one who has to explain something he did last night or whatever. I discuss individual problems. It was okay, quite in front of the team. It was important for the team. Yeah, come on, explain why you did that, why you went out that long, what's happened in the last two hours.”
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“We had situations that players Texas or posted something at night and deleted it, but I still got aware of it. Or not that I read it, but people tell me, oh, last night this happened When? three o'clock three o'clock OK What do you say? That isn't that what I do in these situations even deleted I go in the dressing room and they all lie on her. Last night this and has happened. I know what's there, but maybe you want to tell everybody?”
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“Ruthless in moments they don't care until something happens or whatever supporters sometimes I think we were really lucky with that we created that bond between the supporters and the team that they were not angry disappointed yes but not angry in a way that I don't want to see them anymore That helped, but of course, you have to protect them sometimes. You have to protect them sometimes from themselves as well. So that's the job.”
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“Yes, we protect players. I'm not sure I ever had to lie to be 100% honest. I don't know, but we protect players super important. So for me, super important. Lacks confidence, that's in football obvious. You see that. You run one on one on a goalie and you don't make it. You can see it. It's because you don't have confidence. That's how it is. There's not a lot of other reasons. It can be wind, weather, ball, opponent. It's there, but you do it once, you do it twice, three times. Yes, that's not good for the confidence of nobody. Having that in training, you have the job is not to talk too much about it, just to give him a chance to get confidence back with the things you do in training, that it doesn't last forever. So the one thing you have to protect players from is public. Try to because they are”
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“Trust me, so you are good because I don't work not with other players. I don't waste time. And it's true, I don't. So I really see something. And if I see it, I'm patient enough to work on it. Much more patient than the public wants me to be. But of course the idea is that at one day. I hope you learn flying, but in the end you have to fly. Yourself, obviously, I cannot. What shall I do? And that's my job is to prepare them as good to make it the education, the coaching as wide as they just pick from it. That's the idea. But not too much as well. Yeah, it's obviously a good time in my life doing all these kind of things. I worked with some of the best footballers in the world. Really good time.”
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“Yeah, yeah. I tried to create a situation to make sure that If they are not confident yet, they are confident. But, you know, there are moments when they lose it. Confidence is like once there's a little flower and constantly somebody steps on it. It's like that. Oh, and then it's growing again. And oh, now we are confident against stuff like this. In football, it's really difficult because it's like you cannot play without making mistakes. So if a mistake costs you confident. That's a real challenge. But what I try to If you would believe as much in yourself as I do, that will be a start, but as long as you cannot do that, just”
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“Once I said I never struggled with confidence, but I don't know why. That's the truth. But it's true. I never struggled with confidence. There's no reason for it. My two best friends in school. A genius, and we sat together doing exactly reading the same books, invested the same amount of time. They at the best A-levels in school. And I was far off that. So a normal reaction would be, Pooh I'm a dump, obviously. But I never thought that. I don't really know why that happened. So I took it how it was. I thought, oh, respect. You can remember all these things crazy. I can't.”
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“So it's a start. So it's a start and all the rest is if you want history and that's always in life like that, that it's just give it a chance it makes sense you believe in yourself, but not everybody can do that. But then if you meet somebody who helps you with that, who has a perspective, who can see something in you, then tell. Tell them why you should keep it for yourself. Oh my god, I think he's a talent, she's a talent, whatever. She's good at that, he's good at that. We don't tell each other. Where's the problem?”
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“That's all. It's all about that. It's not football. It's life. When you started your podcast, people probably told you. Well, that might be something for you. But you were not sure. And then with each little thing here and there, oh, how many people listen to your first podcast?”
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“for us that the team is so good. And then we were in a hopeless situation before I took over. So when I became the manager, I was the one who thought this team is incredible. Nobody knows it yet, but we will make sure in a few weeks they will have a sense at least.”
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“Showed up. They wrote us off, showed the outside world, whatever you can do. Most of the time it was real life. But that time. So in my meetings later on, I never prepared in a way that I wrote something down or whatever. Our life was preparation, what happened during the week with us in the world. Our dead was preparation for meeting. I never thought long about it, just remembered it when I needed it. I told the boys. That time they needed one person to believe in them. And I did. It was not that I had to convince myself who have to tell them now. Before that season, I told in an interview, this is the best squad mindset we've ever had. Be really difficult for me to play.”
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“Go for them like nobody else. But I like these moments. I like to find a reason why it makes sense why we give our absolute all in a moment like this, why we don't invest only the minimum, why invest the maximum. Why we would regret it if we don't do it, how better life is if we do it, how much more fun it is if we do it. I love these moments and probably something like that. And from that moment on, nobody wanted to play against us anymore. So we were like, wow, animals. It was great. It was a fantastic time. Same team, pretty much. Changed overnight.”
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“Into the one opponent nobody wants to play against. We were like machines. We were like machines. We were not great football. We were like machines. There were games our goalkeeper didn't touch the ball once. We were just defending. That was new at that time. So it was really for all of them. That means we all became believers in that. Then Wolfgang left. And none of the other coaches could do that. There was no connection to the coaches after Wolfgang. So I always wanted to play us who benefited massively from Wolfgang Frank, and now I arrived. And the only thing I did when the two sessions I had were both exactly about that 442, ball-orientated movements, and we go for MSV Duisburg that time. There were third in the table.”
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“We had Wolfgang Frank, a very, very, the best manager we all had when we were at Mines. She was exceptional. We at Mainz, we were a football team who lost all the games when the other team had better players I think sounds normal, but in football is a way to win games anyway. We never had that. So Eden Wolfgang Frank comes in and implements four in the back, ball-orientated defending. We did nothing else than that. And we changed overnight.”
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“Okay, the first night we had twin room. And it got one more game to sleep there with my friend Jurin Cramney there in the same room. And then the next day they all told me, yeah, you get your own rumor. Oh, okay. But all the rest, we were a real bunch of friends. And they respected me from the first second.”
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“Yeah, from the first seven games we won six and drew one. And we stayed in the league pretty comfortably is incredible. We were a bunch of friends. They were all my friends and I was there. They had to tell me that I changed from now on in the coaches dressing room. What are you doing here? So coaches, that's your office.”
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“So I was one of the old players. I was 33, but I didn't know that that should happen. So he called the sporting director, we need a press conference, and I want to talk to them and tell them, we change everything. And the sporting director says, yeah, we do a press conference, but the subject will be sack you. Okay, so done. And now they didn't have a coach. And then they called me. And for that game, can you do it? And I said, yeah, yeah. I can do it. And I did it and we won the game. And they didn't find a manager. So we had Sunday and other games. The first game we won 1-0. The second game we won 3-1.”
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“I love Eckhart Grautzen, but that time for that team was really, he was just not the right coach. That can happen. It doesn't say anything about you. But we did wrong training, wrong lineups, wrong tactics, wrong everything. So that's how things go bad in the wrong direction in that time. And we had no time, and we didn't have to make the decision who can take over or whatever. We just could say no. He could have said, okay, I will prove you're wrong or whatever, but he ran out. and said, tomorrow morning, 9 o'clock training. And then he wanted to do a press conference where he wanted to tell the public that he kicks out all the experienced players and starts now the rest of the season plays only the young kids.”
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“Is now we have a discussion, yeah. The majority, some people, some players didn't speak, but it was clear if you ask, the answer is no. So as I get, I'm not captain, but the captain says, Global, you tell him. I tell him why okay but he comes in he comes in and that Actually, And he was shocked. It was really shocked. He didn't expect it. It's more like a little thing to do. And then we say, yes, we go through that together, something like that. But we said, no. Because he was not the right person Because we played bad and we was.”
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“So he goes out, he just brings the beer in. We sit there, look at each other and think, huh? And discuss the labor, and I was not kept in that time. I was not the captain. But then it's like, let the decisions know. Yeah, he asked why you asked no. So, and it's like everyone.”
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“Because I didn't find anybody else in the short, we have time. So we played Sunday and the next game was on Wednesday. The idea was just to do that game. So the whole story is that Eckhart Grautzon, the manager at that time, we lost the game on Sunday and we had a little cam, the crisis camp, let me say, because on Wednesday was another very important game. We had to play. So he took us to a hotel that we stay there, have two good sessions, and then we go for this very, very important and maybe decisive game. And at night, we have a meeting with all players. And he said, gentlemen, I want to ask one question. Do you still trust me? Are you still behind me? I don't want to answer now. I order beer for all of you. I go out. Half an hour, I come back and you tell me.”
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“From an aggressive point of view, stuff like this. So that was a bit my explanation. We got a day or so much better. But if I calm down and want to play cool football, I'm out.”
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“I didn't like it at all. And I was afraid when I stopped playing that I'd take it over. So I was emotional. I had moments where I lost a bit of referees and stuff like that. But generally, I was really, I'm a very calm person. So people think, because probably I think I'm a motivator or whatever. I do get up in the morning and come in the dressing room and say, come on, boys. So there we go again. Not at all. I mean, it happens from time to time, but not that often. No, I have no explanation for it. If I would have had an explanation, it was a little bit, I knew I'm not good enough, actually. My teammates were better than me. And I thought I only can get on that level if I squeeze everything out.”
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“No clue. The coach I learned the most of Wolfgang Frank when he came back to Mainz. He was at Mainz, very successful spell, left. And then we were in trouble again. He came back. And I was the captain. Had a very experienced player from a first division team coming to Minds in a second division. Lauschmid was his name. So Wolfgang, J ⁇ rgen, can we talk? Yeah, of course. Young I want to make last the captain. So then you are not captain. Jeff, I know. So it was exactly like that. It meant nothing to me. So my role was not I was a leader in the team, not on purpose. I was on the pitch, an aggressive leader, which I didn't like. So heart rate above 140, I lost it very often, very, very not a good way. So really aggressive talk. Shouting at everybody and in all their really, I had to very often I had to apologize to my teammates.”
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“But you can only do as good as it's possible for you. And that's what I tried all the time to create a relationship where even when we had arguments, we always found a way out as me player. And it never got carried into the team that I lost respect. They lost respect for me because I acted that way. So we always stayed together. We always find a way that they understood, okay. It's really important that we get through this, that they sort it. The boss sorts it with him or the boss sorts it with us, that we can go from here again.”
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“So how do you deal with that the next day? I think I can say we have a very good relationship today, even though on that day it didn't look like. And that's all the things. So you learn, you try to do it the right way. You try to show the players respect. But at one point, it's never enough and you have to accept that as well because the players they grow, they get bigger and bigger and bigger and at one point you hear years later he never spoke to me whatever another player from wherever says about a former coach, about me, about Josse Marin, he never spoke to me. I know we spoke a lot. We just can't remember if we didn't speak what you wanted or we didn't. I didn't tell you what you wanted to hear, so you can never make it 100%.”
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“You want to win more often than not? You want to have the maximum success. You want to be able to become the best team in England at one point? Yeah? Okay, then do that. Come on. So agreement. And then from there, we went on. But then with years, and not because they changed or whatever here a little bit less, there a little bit less. And I have to decide, do I go for them? Like I would go for a young boy playing in that position and say, run, fight, jump, and take them off in a moment. I thought, no, of course not. You don't do that in that moment. It's a story in the newspaper. We had this one argument, I think, with Mo at West Ham at the sideline when it didn't start and I brought him on and he was not happy. The problem, our problems then are always in public.”
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“Jasmine I defend anyway, so we don't have to talk about that. Just explain me how we do it and be obviously to be successful as a football team, you have to organize a football team to get stability, to get stability you need to find a way to defend properly and together. If you have that, based on that, they can start flying. Then let's talk about the football part. And now there are obviously no defenders, but we were famous for our pressing and counterpressing. I talked a lot to them and it was And the way we spoke about it was just 100% clear.”
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“Of course Of course, you have them start your money and mossalah are two top examples. Indian, not a lot of people who saw it coming. We knew they are great. We knew there are massive talents, they have fantastic potential, but they were not who they became later on. In that time, it's not that they came to Liverpool and said,”
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“But it's not so important in a talk conversation with people which depend on you you are responsible for it's not so important what you say is much more important what they need to hear it's not them telling them what they want to hear no what they need to hear to deal with their situation so that's what leadership means not just telling them off for whatever that doesn't work that doesn't work try to understand why and that was I love that part in my job. And I still do that, if you want, right now, not with world-class players all the time or coaches, boarding directors, whatever. They're all young, younger than me at least. And that's how I understand my role understood my role.”
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