Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is a vivid guy, everybody can see that. Former Mainz and Dortmund coach was always a passionate coach, known for his emotional gestures and lively gestures during and after matches. No one was spared from Klopp’s emotions: referees, players or opposite coaches. And from that temperament excellent quotes came out too. Over the years, Jurgen Klopp became a popular among journalists too, since he had very interesting press conferences and a little compilation of his best quotes have been easily made. HIS PLAYERS:When Mats Hummels got injured in Dortmund, Klopp was determined to wait unit his defender is back to training. “We will wait for him like a good wife waiting for her husband in jail”(©AFP)Mario Goetze is a former Germany international who plays for PSV, but used to be a big star during Klopp’s tenure with Dortmund. He later moved to Bayern, only to be back with Borussia after failing to impress in three seasons. Goetze played a football of his life under Klopp, and the German once explained the reason why he played so well. “Mario woke up in the morning and had a hardening”. One of the players who made a career while playing for Klopp in Dortmund was Kevin Großkreutz, who once had to wear a facemask after suffering a facial injury, and Liverpool boss liked it. “Kevin, you’re the only one who looks better with a mask like that than without”.Former Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa made a transfer dream to Old Trafford, after impressing in Klopp’s Dortmund. The Japanese is not known for his heights (1.75cm), but still scored a header for Borussia once, and Klopp made sure to explain journalists that it wasn’t a prepared action. “We didn’t practice that with him on the pendulum. You can’t set it that low”OTHER COACHES:Jurgen Klopp had clashes with other coaches during his career, but it only lasted during and after the game. With the German tactician, there was no ‘wars’ like for example Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger, but he did commented on his colleagues, in fact those two mentioned managers. For the Portuguese he had kind words: “When you’re not a journalist or a referee, he is a nice guy”.And once a journalist asked him about Wenger’s style of football at Arsenal, he explained: “It’s like an orchestra, but it’s a quiet song. I like heavy metal”. JOURNALISTS:Jurgen doesn’t have a problem with journalists, but sometimes he replies when they ask silly questions. And after a draw with Hoffeinheim in Bundesliga, a journalist was asking a trivial question about Marco Reuse colliding with linesman. Klopp replied: “So much football today. You have to make a shit story. It’s a dirty life, I’m really sorry”. During his first job with Mainz, he was due to play with Bayern, and journalists kept on emphasizing the strength of the Bavarians, which annoyed Klopp a bit: “We are not playing with full pants, I checked”.After winning the DFB Cup in 2012 after thrashing Bayern 5-2, a journalist asked Klopp was everything perfect in this match.“It could have been a little warmer”.KLOPP’S ANTIQUES: (©Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images/Gallo Images)After he broke his glasses celebrating a Liverpool win, he explained:“I usually have a second pair of glasses, but I haven’t been able to find them until now, because it’s pretty hard to find glasses without a glasses. When Schalke fan asked him how to become German champion, Klopp was baffled:“How am I supposed to explain to a blind person what color is?”(©Catherine Ivill – AMA/Getty ImagesKlopp did have his ‘situations’ with referees more than once, and once he explained his state of mind: “If calm’ meant that I didn’t hit the fourth official with my cap – then I was calm’Known for this temperament, Klopp doesn’t have a problem with motivation, and he knows it. “If you put my motivation in bottles, you will go to jail for selling it”One thing can be said about Klopp’s teams: they play entertaining football. They attack and they don’t play on counterattacks, waiting for the opponents to make a mistake, even risking that the game finishes 0-0. And he gave a simple explanation for it:“If the spectators want emotions, but you offer grass chess, one of them has to look for a new stadium”. One of the last notable quotes from Klopp came after he was asked about his future a coach, since he will be 57 when his contact ends in 2024. “It’s very, very unlikely that I will still be sitting in the coaching bench in my mid 60’s. Instead, sitting in good health on another bench is more of the goal. And if in the end it ends up being three clubs, with Mainz, Dortmund and Liverpool, it was definitely awesome”.
