Top 60 Virgil van Dijk Quotes

The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.

Winning a trophy is important for your mentality.

I am very happy with it, it is a great honour to be the captain of your country.

When you’re 2-0 down after 30 minutes, then you know it’s going to be tough.

I’m very happy to have already been welcomed into the LFC family, I’m a part of history having won the Champions League and hopefully we keep making history.

I think Messi is the best player in the world.

I think Aguero is one of the best strikers in the League. And he’s been doing it for many years.

I love playing for Liverpool, I am proud to wear the shirt.

I’m a big fan of ‘Prison Break’ – I’ve watched it eight times.

If I watch big games like the Champions League on TV then I’m definitely watching what different centre-backs are doing in certain situations.

Like Koeman, Klopp knows exactly how to get the best out of me – by being critical. When the media are hyping me and being very positive, he will downplay the praise and all that – often with a wink.

Everyone that plays for Liverpool always stays in the Liverpool family.

Quite a lot of things are more important than playing football and what we do, we are blessed.

I think it is a very important thing in football to keep each other awake and alert.

I try to read the game as well as I can.

To play with pressure is always a good thing. I like to play with pressure.

As players, the only thing we can do is give everything on the pitch, and that’s what the fans do for us as well.

In my position when things are going well it’s pretty easy to say that I’m sort of the guy that fixes everything. But if things are going bad then I’m the one that gets all the blame. In the end, we all do it together.

I’d rather play with pressure than without.

You have to, you need to be hard with each other. When things aren’t going right you need to tell each other, otherwise it’s going to be too easy.

Why be negative when you can enjoy life and be positive? That’s something I learned over the years.

The season is very long.

It’s great to get recognition from other players.

When I went to FC Groningen, I had to take my bike to training – my first wage went on driving lessons. Before I signed my contract, I was 15 or 16 and working as a dishwasher in a Breda restaurant.

It is a strength of mine to not really bother too much when people have their opinions, especially negative opinions.

I’ve been progressing as a player and as a person.

You have to tell each other the truth, you cannot be nice and happy when we want to achieve so much as a team and a club.

You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.

I’ve known my best friend since I was 12 or 13.

I don’t really care, if somebody boos me or boos the team, we’re trying to win the game.

I looked death in the eye – and it was a terrible experience.

Obviously, I’m honoured to be mentioned as a candidate to win the Ballon d’Or, but the only way I can influence it is to just focus on playing well.

We just need to keep improving. Keep doing what we are doing and get better. That’s the only way forward.

I want to achieve great things.

I was always playing on the streets with my friends until I was 15 or 16 and I wanted to do things with my skills that were exciting.

I was very proud to win the PFA trophy because usually an attacker or a midfielder wins it.

At 16, I was a slow right-back and wasn’t good enough to play centre-back.

If you’re nervous you think: ‘I don’t want to make mistakes or give the ball away.’ But you limit your own qualities then.

Scoring goals looks nicer and much more attractive than a last-ditch tackle for younger people.

I don’t fear anyone.

Obviously there are a lot of expectations when you come to a club for a record fee but you can’t change that. You just need to perform and show it on the pitch and gain respect through that.

There is always room for improvement in our game.

There are always things we can still learn to perfect.

In every team there are going to be moments of vulnerability.

I have a very similar connection with Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool as I had earlier with Ronald Koeman at Southampton.

The Champions League is unbelievably big. The whole show before, the fans, the players you play against, the people who are going to watch the game, the pressure – it’s very special.

There’s always things to improve, you can’t be satisfied with what you have.

Fear is not something we feel at Liverpool.

There’s always pressure at a big club.

I remember starting ‘Game of Thrones,’ everyone said ‘you have to watch it,’ but I thought ‘it’s science fiction, it’s not real, it’s nothing.’ I gave it a go and then couldn’t stop watching it.

It’s the media who love statistics.

The only thing I want to do is keep working and keep giving everything I can in every game.

It’s always a great feeling to help Holland as well as Liverpool but we all do it together.

Football is a game. It’s something I love to do. But there are so many things in life that are more important.

We need to look at what we have ahead of us and that is more important than looking at someone else. It is the only way forward.

There are plenty of good central defenders around and I enjoy watching them.

I think the mindset is always to think that you are never going to play pain-free.

It was always a dream of mine to play in the Premier League.

We can’t always play the perfect game.

I have improved since I joined Liverpool.