Dejan Lovren Quotes

You want the best players to be on form come the Euros.

You can buy any strikers you want, but this position is important, and you need someone there who can do the job.

Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.

Football is not a game about numbers. It's about wins and trying to go out and play better than the other team.

It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Skating, like all other sports, has an element of strategy.

As a footballer, you want to play every game.

At City I went back there on the basis of playing for manager Mark Hughes.

In football, things change quickly.

That's how it works, it's football. They need you or they don't.

It goes without saying that I love the game, the tactics, the training, and everything that happens on the pitch.

A result doesn't determine the planning on the sporting side.

When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.

Tactics are just a part of football because the players are playing.

You always have competition and great players who can play. The winner in that case is Paris Saint-Germain. With great players, even if a player is unavailable, another can come in and make the difference.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

You have to win on the ball.

Each game, we try to win the three points, but every game, I want to score and help the team.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

For us at Ajax, it is all about football.

You can play Dybala and Ronaldo; it just depends on the situations.

For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.

I'm really pleased with WPS and the quality of players and the teams.

In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.