Dejan Lovren Quotes

I'm liking the Bundesliga. There's a lot of top, top defenders that you come across.

I bet I made close to 20 tackles because nobody on either side knew what they were doing.

I always had a concept of watching great players, great goalkeepers.

There have been a lot of French midfielders at Chelsea, but they did it their way and I do it my way and I hope I can do good things at Chelsea.

In football, you have to learn from everything, but everyone makes mistakes.

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

Oftentimes, the post safety will eye me up pre-snap a lot of times and know where I am.

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

If you have a good midfield, you have a good team.

Quarterback and cornerback are two of the hardest positions to play on the field, so yeah, you're going to get beat, you're going to throw interceptions, you're going to get sacked, you're going to miss throws. Stuff like that is going to happen. That's something you've been prepping for your whole life playing the position.

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.

I like football, and I like good players.

You have to win on the ball.

First and foremost my obligation is on the defensive side. But obviously there are times when I need to go and attack, too.

I prefer Liverpool. The way we play is good for all of our players.

Real Madrid, they are the best counter-attacking team in the world.

I think the way I played, I would have suited Sundowns.

I want to play in every match, score goals when the opportunity presents itself, and help players in good positions to also score goals.

You don't need only your strikers. You need your defenders to be on top of their game. You need a midfield to work hard and track back, and I suppose you need a goalkeeper who makes saves once in a while.

Coach Marinelli's defense is incredible.

No single player can stop Antoine Griezmann on his own.

Football is a game of moments now and if someone does four step-overs, they've had an incredible game. That's not something I do.

Every time I step on the field, it doesn't matter who we're playing, I want to get an interception.

Considering Messi's quality and everything he represents, I don't think I've seen him playing with a guy following him around the pitch the entire time with the sole purpose of not letting him play.

The strikers need the midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. My objective is to have everything work in all the aspects.