After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.

I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.

I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

It looked pretty wild, but I was actually in control of myself. I've never really injured anyone throughout my career.

The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.

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

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