100 Quotes by Ilkay Gundogan

A player can have all the quality and everything it takes to play for a big-six team or to play for the best teams in the world but then sometimes it happens and it doesn't work out. It's not because of the player or the club, sometimes it's just the environment, it's the wrong timing.

The elite footballers of one country meet at the national team and it's an honour for me to be among them.

It would be the completely wrong thing to go into games with fear.

Football is our life, not politics.

I have no problem with answering questions honestly or even looking outside the box and answering private questions.

It's bad if you disguise yourself, I honestly cannot see it anymore when you're after the game, always asked the same questions and give pre-programmed answers. I do not know if there is a solution for that. I don't know if you can, want or should change it. But sometimes I just wish for a little more.

That's why I don't want to know the questions before, when I give interviews whether TV or print. I don't want to prepare myself for what I will answer.

To be honest I think watching from the sidelines is one of the most difficult things.

Coach education in Germany is actually very good, but I do not understand why many coaches do not have the guts to push through an idea when they have lost two or three times.