With the boos, you can see the expectations here in Germany are huge. The boys are insecure after the terrible performance in Turkey.

I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I’ve got more relaxed and I think it shows.

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

No, I’ve never been one for the records.

It shifted attention away from that and I’ve never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

I’ve been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament you’ve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it.

I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can’t really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the...

It’s so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

It was not our day, not our match and somehow we were due for a loss. Now the weight of the winning streak is off our shoulders.

The tennis wasn’t really very much on my mind, so it wasn’t like I was thinking about it all the time.

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

I knew that maybe I couldn’t be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

I never look back, I look forward.

There is no reason to change this system. I don’t think we’ll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That’s the kind of game we have to...

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

I appreciate very much being injury-free.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I’m trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that...