Dejan Lovren Quotes

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.

The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.

It's harder when you're supposed to win. When you're talking about the best players and the best teams in the world, when you talk about the Heat, you can ask them - it's not easy.

This is football, you always have to compete to be able to play. When you're at a big club, it's like that.

If you want to be a big player and play for a big club, you have to deal with the pressure.

You can't get in the top four if you can't beat the clubs who are in the top four.

The pressure is on the big teams.

I like a little pressure. That's how football goes.

I'm working with elite players, and they test and challenge you.

American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.

There's always pressure at a big club.

Competition is to be expected at a club like Arsenal.

What a humbling experience, being an NFL quarterback.

I had to prepare hard for number four because that's not where I batted all my life.

I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.

You want to play in big games.

I've always felt comfortable, but in football, there are lows.

We're not above a Game 7. We're not above competition.

Playing in attack is difficult. You are under scrutiny, and you have to be able to deal with that.

You want to play in the big games, you want to play for a big club and to play with pressure.