Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Georginio Wijnaldum

Because I was fast, technical, and could dribble well, it was always the easy thing to label me just a winger and have me stick to that.

Everyone in the Champions League has quality.

I like to score goals, as, back in the day, I was used to scoring goals.

Before I signed for Liverpool, I was playing for Newcastle as a No. 10 - basically, I was always attacking. I didn't have to do much defensive work; I didn't play as the No. 6 or the No. 8.

When it goes bad, you know supporters will be angry at players who were bought for most money.

You can't afford to lose games. It is always possible that you will not win, but it is the way you play the game.

It makes it easier for you to play more often and it makes it easier for the manager if he has players who can be used in different positions.

You must play with the same intention: to win the game and give everything you have.

You're always disappointed when you lose a game.

Normally, I am a player who can play in different positions, but never in defence.

I think Anfield is a fortress.

It would be absolutely fantastic to play at Real Madrid together with my friend Royston Drenthe.

I can play in different positions, and if I can do what I'm good at, score goals, show how good I can play football, then it's OK with me.

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

It's irrelevant how I prefer to play and what I want. It's all about what works for the team.

With my quality, I feel I can bring a lot to a team that I will join. I want to show it in the big leagues: England, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France.

If a whole team doesn't perform, you cannot pick one player especially and say, 'He doesn't do this or do that.'

I don't care what other people say about me. I know what I'm capable of.

For Feyenoor,d the biggest game is Ajax, but if Sparta are going to play for the title, then that will be the biggest game. It depends how both teams are doing.

It's my dream to play in a big league, and England would be the perfect choice.

I think I've shown I have the defensive discipline to play deep as the No.6 and start the build ups with my passing. I can also play higher up the pitch and make a difference in the opposition area. Being able to do both has helped me to play so many games.

You will always learn from games. But every game is not the same, not the same emotion.

I want to move to one of Europe's best clubs if I leave Rotterdam, just like Robin van Persie and Kuyt did before.

When you lose games, you analyse them more than when you win.

I don't want to leave Feyenoord before having made an impact at the club.

PSG wanted to sign me. For me, it was confirmation that I am on the right track and was in a good spell. My heart told me I had to stay at PSV where I still have things to achieve.

I have to be honest: in my career, I've really had to fight to come in the middle again. A lot of managers told me, 'You are way more comfortable as a winger than as a midfielder,' but I always kept my trust and confidence in what I knew about my qualities.

I am happy at PSV, but I am a player with a lot of ambition.

It's always a blow for a team if important players get injured or suspended.

As a player, you want to play a lot of games.

When a lot of players come to a club, it can be difficult to gel because you don't know each other properly.

I was always happy to play for the Dutch national team.

It is a fault of the whole team if you don't deliver.

Liverpool will always buy good players, even if they already have good players. That's normal. I think it has to be normal for a club like Liverpool because that means you're a big club.

Some days, you don't score, but then you have to make sure you don't concede.

Every game is different.

At seven, I played centre-back. When you're so young, though, it's more to enjoy the training and to get a feel for the game. It's not heavy on tactics of a position. We were playing on a half pitch, seven against seven or eight against eight, so they say you're a centre-back, but it's not like the real definition.

Sometimes you need luck to score.

There were loads of managers who said, 'You have to concentrate on being a winger because you have more potential there.' But I was like, 'You can say what you want, but I'm a midfielder, and I know what's the best for me.'

When you play at home, you want the fans behind you, and you must give them something back.

The most important thing is to enjoy football because you don't know how long your career is going to last, but it is difficult when things don't go well.

You can lose games, but when you look back on the games you lose, you must be, 'Okay, we lost, but we did everything to win it.'

I wanted to be a gymnast when I was young - I used to do backflips and all those things in the street and at home - but my grandma said it was dangerous and made me stop.

At Under-11/12, I was playing as a right-back. The manager then was Cyril Helstone, and he said to me, 'No, you're not a defender. You should be in midfield.' That was the big change in my career because from that moment until I made my debut in the first-team at Feyenoord, that was the position I played.

You always learn from a defeat, even more than when you win games, because when you win, you don't see everything you did wrong.

Every team learns when they lose a game.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

If you look at the difference games between the bigger and smaller teams, the difference in concentration, and being passive is big; that is my opinion.

You want to play against the best and beat the best.

To follow in the footsteps of Dirk Kuyt would be sensational. He triumphed at Feyenoord and has had great success at Liverpool.

I want to be remembered as a Liverpool player who was part of something special.

I think, a lot of teams, when they come to Anfield and they play a draw, they think it is a good result.

Learning to play different roles has made me a more all-round midfielder.

As a player, I have this feeling - and I think every player thinks this - that I am responsible for how my team-mates feel. I just want to do my best and give 100 per cent, and if I do that, they will feel better and think, 'I will give 100%.'

You want to be able to look back and feel you were part of Liverpool's great history - win something here, and they will always remember you.

You don't always have to win beautiful.

Every player wants to score more.

Every game is a new game, and anything can happen.

It's not normal to score four goals in a game.

I was full of confidence in myself that I would reach the top or be a professional player as a midfielder.