Quotes from Julian Nagelsmann

At every level I was promoted faster than I ever thought.

As as a coach you shouldn't take yourself too seriously and never forget that the main protagonists are the players. Your own influence is sometimes less than one believes or hopes for.

I'm a football coach, not a model.

I like to be the normal Julian Nagelsmann. Doesn't matter if I'm the manager of RB Leipzig or the manager of a youth team. I hope that if you ask anybody of my team in my former days or now they say 'yes, he is still the same guy.'

When I get a new player, we do tests about his character and personality because it is very important to find out about the things he loves to do on and off the pitch.

Thirty per cent of coaching is tactics, 70% social competence.

If you go to Real Madrid, there's no time to improve as a manager. You don't have a chance to be a better manager, you already have to be the best.

If you go to Real Madrid or Barcelona, the fans, the media and the decision-makers don't give you the time to grow into that.

It's normal if Real Madrid call you, you think about it.

Diego Simeone has done a great job with a lot of success.

When you educate and develop your players, it is important they recognise you are sometimes crazy and a child and want to play football. Even though I am a manager, there will always be a good relationship with them. They know I am not only the guy who tells them ideas but that I can also be a crazy child as well - and that is important.

There's pressure and it's nerve-wracking, particularly in the Champions League. So you need to be able to free yourself to a certain extent and have fun in what you are doing.

I have always pointed out in many interviews that it is my dream to manage a world-class club and win trophies. Bayern are among these top clubs, but there's also a few more.

We don't have the same philosophy, but I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to have a nickname associated with Jose Mourinho.

For me, being a top coach means more than just teaching football. That includes empathy, it means that you can speak to a group, that you can deal with the media - you have to be able to do all of that. I would not describe myself as blind in this regard, but a top coach also includes titles.

Counter-pressing is a very important topic. Putting pressure onto opponents almost every single minute so we can win the ball... but that is only one thing; we need to find a good balance between ball possession and attacking moments.

Jurgen Klopp has the gift of developing clubs and improving people.

Mourinho and I have similarities in our careers. We didn't play professionally but our way of playing is not the same.

You have to play injury time like the 90 minutes.

As a player you just go and train - but as a coach or a trainer you think what you can do to improve the team, or specific parts of the game. You will do that on the field and after the training: you say that was the right or the wrong way.

For me, Mourinho is an extreme coach with focus on results who is not very concerned with glamour on the pitch. He puts the result above everything and if you get so many titles doing that, it is certainly not a wrong way.

From the outside, you often only see the person who posts pictures of his yacht. But what Sami Khedira told me about Ronaldo's professional approach to work, for example, is impressive. He has to be an incredible training animal, the first to come, the last to leave. He is also a very warm guy. That mix is extremely exciting.

Who shaped me the most was Thomas Tuchel. For the simple reason that he was my own trainer and the exchange was so much more intense. I can rate how he really thinks.

I think it's important to be completely transparent with the players.