Quotes from Georginio Wijnaldum

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

You're always disappointed when you lose a game.

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.

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

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

Pochettino is a terrific manager if you look at the way his teams play.

As a football player, you must have a big ego to respect yourself. So if you are a good player, you must say that you are good. You need to have the confidence.

I think Anfield is a fortress.

I only worked with Rafa Benitez for a short time, but he's a great manager, and he showed it from the first moment he came. He worked with the players and made us a better team. He's a good person, always trying to help players out.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

He gave me a lot of confidence because he said he liked my way of playing football. He said I was a person he really wanted to have in his squad. Something like that is always good to hear. It made me happy, especially as it came from such a great trainer like Jurgen Klopp. He showed how good he is at Dortmund with all the success he had.

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

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.

We play for Liverpool. It is always our intention to win. All the players here want to compete at the top and win. The manager does not have to say to us, 'We want to win a trophy.'

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.

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

If you want to compete for the Premier League title, you need to win ugly sometimes.

I saw Spurs as being a very good fit for me - but we were unable to agree financial terms with them... With hindsight, though, that was not a disaster.