Oliver Kahn Quotes
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When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
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Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
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We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
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I have exactly the same feeling (as before the 2002 finals)...
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There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
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A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.
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After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.
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It was so incredibly lucrative that I really had to think about it for a long time.
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Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.
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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.
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Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.
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It is astonishing how disrespectful it is to bring this up again. The rules don't seem to have any meaning for him.
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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.
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After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.
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I am relaxed about the situation now. If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.
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It's not that we need to run over the U.S., but we do need to restore some lost credit. That should have absolute priority.
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With this offer from the Far East I most likely would have had to renounce the World Cup. This was too high a price to pay.
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We are not saying we are going to run them into the ground, but we have to get our credit back. You can notice the tension in the team. It's good to have some pressure before the game.
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Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.