Per Mertesacker Quotes

Per Mertesacker

Profession : Coach

Birth : September 29, 1984

After you have won a game, you can maybe smile for a minute and then you have to think: 'How can I recover as quickly as possible.'

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I invested a lot in my fitness.

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If you just protect and you have no chances on the break and you miss one chance to kill the game, then it's difficult in the Premier League to win any game.

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As long as you are winning it is a good day.

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Mentality is a big part of every game, when you take the initiative and when you drop.

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Of course I have an advantage with my size on set pieces.

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Some days you realise that everything is a burden, both physically and mentally. That it's not about fun, but you have to deliver without a doubt. Even if you are injured.

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In the moments before a game starts my stomach turns around as if I had to vomit. Then I have to choke so violently until my eyes tear.

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No matter how much striking power you have got, you need to have a sense of defensive compactness from everyone.

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In certain situations, players should protect themselves by not losing track of the most important things in their job.

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Being in a career and going from highlight to highlight and playing a lot of matches you go through it and think it's normal when you play in front of 60,000 and you almost want to vomit in front of every game.

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I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.

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The heritage of Arsenal, to believe in our academy and to really promote our academy. That's important and that's why I am here as well. I wouldn't waste my time just to know that we are not having successes here at Arsenal.

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Obviously, everyone looks at whether we bring young footballers into the first team, that's one of the goals. But I wouldn't discard someone who is successful in life, that's big. The hall of fame in the academy should be a wide variety of stories.

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If Messi has the ball, he is fantastic to watch and difficult to stop. You have to double up on him, triple up on him even, stay with him constantly to block his way to the goal.

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Never tackle, never go down, we've heard it over and over again. You have to try to keep Messi away from the goal and block him with multiple players while being as close to him as possible. He is too quick, too fast, too intense with the ball.

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When I played for Hannover I had several offers, also - as I have been told - from Hamburg, Bremen and Bayern. Back then I already was a German international and Bayern would have loved to have the complete German national team.

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I was fortunate to play under Thomas Schaaf at Bremen. And I played for Arsene Wenger. So I always felt, let's say, more responsible than others towards the manager and his succession.

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Arsene Wenger was always the kind of manager whose belief in his team's qualities was steady as a rock and who approached matters with never-ending patience.

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First and foremost, Wenger saw us as human beings and he had a lot of faith in us, which is why he stood by us.

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