I spent five years in Italy, and the Italians have a slightly different lifestyle. Everything is a bit slower and more easygoing. You can feel that when you live there; you become a little more relaxed about typically 'German' things like accuracy and punctuality.

Miroslav Klose

It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.

Miroslav Klose

shame sports fall

Fishermen and coaches have one thing in common: both need to be very patient.

Miroslav Klose

fishermen need one-thing patient

Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you must have patience and wait for the right moment to strike power with the utmost coolness.

Miroslav Klose

moment you power patience

Once a year, I gather a group of friends to go fishing.

Miroslav Klose

go group friends fishing

The team's success always came first for me.

Miroslav Klose

me always team success

In a final, anything is possible.

Miroslav Klose

possible anything anything-is-possible

I could very well see myself ending my professional career at Kaiserslautern.

Miroslav Klose

ending professional see myself

My professional career only began at 21, really.

Miroslav Klose

professional really career only

It is important for us to push into the box - not play around it like some sort of handball team.

Miroslav Klose

push team important play

I've had a great time with the national team and enjoyed some amazing moments.

Miroslav Klose

amazing great team time

Winning the World Cup was a dream come true.

Miroslav Klose

true dream winning world

There's no better way for me to end my time with the German team than by winning the World Cup.

Miroslav Klose

me team time world

Of course you want to coach in the Bundesliga when you move into coaching.

Miroslav Klose

coach you coaching want

This is a virile sport in which physical contact is allowed.

Miroslav Klose

allowed which physical contact

I always accept the decisions of the coach.

Miroslav Klose

coach decisions accept always

Those who know me well know that the World Cup is my goal.

Miroslav Klose

well know me world

I've always been a real striker.

Miroslav Klose

been always real

I will never put my ego before the team. I have never done and will never do so.

Miroslav Klose

will never ego team

I'm not worried that Germany will always have strikers that are of international calibre.

Miroslav Klose

will always international germany

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

Miroslav Klose

slow win past world