I recently completed reading the book by Raphale Honigstein about Jürgen Klopp: Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story. It is not a great biography but it still has great quotes to keep in mind. Here we go:
If you need
someone in a suit and in a tie, don’t get Jürgen Klopp. But if you want a top
coach, you’ll have to get him. It wasn’t a case of making an immediate decision
but I know that Dortmund were looking at him a bit more closely from that day
on. But they still weren’t entirely convinced. Watzke kept on calling me, I
don’t know how many times. I always said: “Go for it, go for it. You will never
regret the day you sign Jürgen Klopp.”’
‘Once, Mainz
drew 1-1 with us, in Dortmund, and I congratulated him on winning a point. To
draw at Dortmund was a success for Mainz, wasn’t it? But he just looked at me
and said: “Congratulations to you too.” That was classic Klopp.
‘It’s always
about making the crowd happy, it’s about producing games with a recognisable
style,’ he vowed. ‘When matches are boring, they lose their rationale. My teams
have never played chess on the pitch. I hope we will witness the odd
full-throttle occasion here. The sun won’t shine every day in Dortmund, but we
have a chance to make it shine more often.’
