No one is going to look at the good things you do. Everybody is going to watch the bad things and that is how it is.
— Virgil van Dijk
Marco van Basten - I never saw him properly play but I know he was pretty good.
Everyone that plays for Liverpool always stays in the Liverpool family.
I have a very similar connection with Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool as I had earlier with Ronald Koeman at Southampton.
Why make things difficult? Why have tough times when it's not necessary?
Every step of my career was hard work.
I've been progressing as a player and as a person.
The influence of social media is unbelievable. It's sad to see - it's a fake life that some people live.
There's always things to improve, you can't be satisfied with what you have.
I try to read the game as well as I can.
Anything is possible in football.
Quite a lot of things are more important than playing football and what we do, we are blessed.
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.
It is a strength of mine to not really bother too much when people have their opinions, especially negative opinions.
There are always things we can still learn to perfect.
The only thing I want to do is focus and get better.
We can't always play the perfect game.
I am very happy with it, it is a great honour to be the captain of your country.
To get the PFA Player of the Year is a fantastic honour. It's the highest honour you can get because it's voted by your fellow peers.
I won't be a pundit because you have to be saying certain things that you might not even want to, but you have to.
I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.
I want to achieve great things.
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.
Fear is not something we feel at Liverpool.
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.
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.
It's great to get recognition from other players.
I think the mindset is always to think that you are never going to play pain-free.
I hate losing, like everyone else.
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.
Ronaldinho - he was one of my idols.
I just want to be remembered as a fantastic player who gave everything for the team and enjoyed every bit of it.
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.
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.
I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.
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.
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.
It was always a dream of mine to play in the Premier League.
I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.
In every team there are going to be moments of vulnerability.
You should not have any fear when you go out on the pitch.
Winning a trophy is important for your mentality.
You need to have dreams, you need to go for it, otherwise why would you be a footballer?
Everyone can get better. That's how I feel and that's what I want to do.
Just focus on doing what you love to do and play your best game. Get your qualities out of the pitch, enjoy your game and don't think about the other things.
I don't fear anyone.
I just enjoying playing for Liverpool, it doesn't really matter who is standing next to me.
The world can be very cruel.
The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.
There is always room for improvement in our game.
