Jürgen Klopp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This is very important, I would say.
I think that's, again, to learn, even though you want to be as successful as somehow possible.
You have to accept that from time to time you lose.
And then when you then keep going, you have a good chance if you learn from it.
A defeat is a defeat if you don't learn from it.
If you learn from it, it's a very, very important information.
And obviously in football, we have a lot of opportunities to get beat and opportunities to learn from it.
But this was the biggest relief in my life, not happiness.
I was just pure relief.
The pressure was mounting.
I was crazy.
Not only myself, nobody, not from outside, I don't know even nobody outside, well thought.
But to make it happen that year, that was really special.
It's not that I knew that always, but we spoke about very early what made me the person I am.
These people, of course, mom, dad, my faith as well.
And I knew always.
that I'm not here to get everything.
I'm here to give everything.
So that doesn't help in the moment when you fail for a point.
But in the general understanding as a person, of course it helps.