Virgil van Dijk Quotes

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

Honestly, I don't know the word 'pressure,' because football is my job. I always enjoy it.

Just gotta try to have fun. It's a business. You just gotta come out there and play hard because you never know when another player might take your spot.

I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position.

It's a business. Everybody treats it like a business. You love playing football, you love being around the locker room, and that's really the most important thing for me.

If I wasn't aiming to break into the Arsenal first team, that wouldn't be the correct mindset.

I think you've got to have an unbelievable amount of passion and love for the game, even though it's a job and there's a lot of things that go on in the business side of it.

I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.

I come to play everyday.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

I'm getting excited before every single game. The trophy at the end is less important than the process itself.

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

I want to prove myself at Chelsea and be successful in the Premiership and the Champions League.

I play in the Champions League. I don't have anything to complain about.

All I want to do is play. I love the game. I want to show everyone what I can do.

I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.

I have always known that I've got the ability to play in a big club like Chelsea.

We try each and every week to win. We know what's at stake, but every coach has that mindset, so it's not easy.