Thomas Muller Quotes

Football is a sport with huge potential.

I try to be a player who is there for the team, even off the pitch.

You can’t compare my game with Messi’s, Neymar’s, or Cristiano Ronaldo’s.

When we’re up 1-0 after 88 minutes, I don’t sprint to the sidelines to take a throw-in – I expect that I and my team will be smart.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

I try to help the team, and I know what my qualities are, how I can use it to be successful at the highest level. That does not always look so elegant.

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

In the end, we should not forget that playing football is our job. So people should accept that wages will always play a role in a player’s decision-making.

We are footballers, not artists.

You can’t forget it is a business and not just playing football for a hobby.

Nothing will push me away from Bayern.

Transfer fees don’t show which player is better. It’s only a number necessary for a club to get a player.

Usually, I’m a very positive guy. I try to think about the next chance, the next game, the next opportunity to play well.

Every sportsman wants success. It is very important.

There’s no club out there that is really a step up when you play for Bayern Munich. At most, you can join a club that acts at the same level.

Football is a game with tight results in which you don’t need to be the dominant team; if you’re a bit lucky and make the right decision at the right time, then you can be as successful as well.

I hate running.

For players, during our active career, it is always difficult to talk about coaches – whether it is former or a current.

I know that I make technical mistakes from time to time. It’s one of the aspects of my game that I’ve been working on for years. I think I’ve managed to reduce the number of those technical mistakes to a minimum, but occasionally, they happen. On the other hand, I do have moments of technical brilliance.

The pressure is always there with Bayern, but we can cope with it.

The titles that I have won at a young age are a further inspiration to work hard to continue to be successful.

We’re FC Bayern, and we’ll always send out a competitive team.

As a footballer, you always want to win.

Ronaldo and Messi, in particular, are above everybody else.

Victory comes first because winning is the most important thing in football.

It is difficult to say how muscle injuries occur.

Whenever Germany lose or play badly, there are 1,000 reasons. And no matter how many questions there are, we will never make everyone happy.

You cannot plan for the Champions League: the competitors are always overwhelming. It is a big new challenge every year.

No player can rest on his laurels.

You can’t always expect us to trash our opponents.

The most important thing in Guardiola’s theory is to play football, and this always stays the same. The basic idea is always the same, but different opponents offer different space which you can use to play in.

There is no B-Team at Bayern Munich.

You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it’s not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.

I think that Guardiola only wants victory and perfection.

I play with great players.

When the team’s not playing well offensively, it’s always a problem for me because I’m not an individualistic player.

You always intend to do this and that, but then you have to go out and do it on the pitch.

As a striker, you always try to convert your chances, give everything when training.

I’m not a super dribbler.

Germany are a tournament team. I don’t know why that is, perhaps the mentality. We always look forward to tournaments. We also believe we can always perform well.

You have to adapt and find your niche, in terms of the type of player you can become, both on and off the pitch. I always knew I’d have no chance against a 1.90m, 90kg defender in a duel, so the key is to avoid these situations altogether. You have to pick your space and time.

When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.

I’m a mix between a striker and a midfielder.

It’s quite a feeling to be living your dream, and it seems easy to be like I am.

I don’t take the ball in the middle of the pitch and dribble past six guys.

I have different qualities and no problem with that. Of course, my style of football is not like Messi’s or Neymar’s.

I am not a guy who gets scared.

At FC Bayern, the Bundesliga title is always the first priority.

In the centre, you play more with your back to the opponent’s goal and have to move into the gaps.

I like to be active in space in behind the opposition’s midfield. That’s where I can hurt the opponent most of all.

Louis van Gaal and I have a relationship that goes beyond that which is normal between a player and a coach.

I have to work hard and give my all in games and training sessions.

Football is the best team sport in the world, and it is good to hear that more and more kids are playing football in India.

Football is simple but very complicated.

The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.