153 Quotes by Michael Ballack

When I see Mario Gotze, his development does not go in the right direction. He has outstanding qualities, but he has not reached his potential for whatever reason. His charisma is not so good, fellow players, coaches, fans and the media do not feel that he is fighting against his current situation. He's more an introvert player.

It's good for your career as a sportsman if you watch other professional sports - how they're behaving and how they react in difficult situations.

In the summer, during the holidays, there would be 5,000 people each day at training with Bayern Munich and that makes it hard to concentrate.

Everybody has to play for their team and accept his role, even if you are in a defensive position sometimes. That is the key if you want to have success.

We have to focus on ourselves and if we play the best we can we can win the league.

I think if you play for Chelsea you have to deal with the pressure, everybody knows the expectations.

You want to win everything possible and you try it every year, but you can't win everything, we know this as well but we have to play good football, we have to get the best of our team.

Chelsea have given me the opportunity to play in a top team with top players, so I will try to be as successful as possible here.

Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.