Top 33 Dejan Lovren Quotes

I love playing against England.

Every year it is more difficult to get into the top four.

My mum said: ‘Germany is our second home’ and it’s true. Germany gave us their open hands. I don’t know which country could have done that, at that time, to welcome refugees from Bosnia.

I never said I am the best.

I was German-speaking, and I arrived 10 years old to Croatia, and really wasn’t speaking a lot at home with my parents in Croatian, so it was really difficult to write in Croatian. It took me two years after I went back to learn everything again in Croatian.

I always try to be better than yesterday.

I had better offers financially but from the first day I said I want to come to Liverpool.

It would be a pleasure to play against England. They are one of the top teams.

People look at football, they don’t look at what is going on around the life.

I never expected that I would be somebody. I just started playing and when I was 12, 13, thought: ‘Wow, I’m playing good.’ Then Dinamo Zagreb were speaking about signing me, I thought: ‘Hmm, maybe I can achieve something.’

I am professional, won a Champions League, silver at the World Cup, I achieved big things in football and don’t deserve to go anywhere on loan.

People always catch you on mistakes and they don’t look at the good things you do.

If my little girl wants a toy or something, sometimes I say, ‘I don’t have the money’. It’s quite difficult to understand why I’m saying that, but she needs to understand that nothing comes easy.

I’ve achieved big things that would not be possible had I not been at such a big club as Liverpool.

Maybe if I had signed for Chelsea I’d just have been sitting on the bench and what is the point in that?

I am giving my best to have a quiet life but sometimes it doesn’t depend on myself because people just want to come into my home and steal some things, even though I have nothing in my home.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

I never had any feelings of hate towards the Southampton fans – they helped me and of course, they made some good business.

At Liverpool, when warmed up, we enter the game or after 15 minutes go back to the bench.

Where would I go from Liverpool? It is one of the biggest clubs in the world and I am too happy here to move.

But Liverpool is a big club, and expectations are high, so it is normal that you are going to be criticised.

It’s an honour, of course, to play against the biggest players in the world.

The biggest problem is my back.

I remember my dad took my ice skates. One day I asked my mum: ‘Where are my ice skates?’ because I loved to skate in the winter. And she said through tears: ‘Dad is selling them now… we don’t have money for this week.’

I had the luck with Germany. If they hadn’t allowed us to come in I don’t know where we would’ve gone or where we could go. I never ask about that. My mum said: ‘Germany is our second home’ and it’s true. Germany gave us their open hands.

We need to always stay hungry. When we lose the ball, get it back quickly.

We know how in football everything changes quickly. It doesn’t take too long to lose one game.

I made the wrong decision many times. Sometimes I can accept it, sometimes not because football is like that. But in the end it depends on yourself and whether you are ready to move on or not.

If you want to be at the top, you need to have the winning mentality and the calmness.

I like to keep fighting in the bad moments and I will never say I am done.

I saw everything on my parents, and I said to myself: ‘I don’t want to live my life like this.’ They gave me everything they could but it was not amazing.

In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.

I feel relief after the transfer window is closed. I got tired of reading and listening every day about me leaving or staying at Liverpool. Everyone wrote ‘Dejan is here, Dejan is there,’ and they knew nothing!