Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.