You have to tell each other the truth, you cannot be nice and happy when we want to achieve so much as a team and a club.
I want to achieve great things.
I think it is a very important thing in football to keep each other awake and alert.
Anything is possible in football.
If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.
I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.
When I went to FC Groningen, I had to take my bike to training - my first wage went on driving lessons. Before I signed my contract, I was 15 or 16 and working as a dishwasher in a Breda restaurant.
I just want to be remembered as a fantastic player who gave everything for the team and enjoyed every bit of it.
You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.
In my position when things are going well it's pretty easy to say that I'm sort of the guy that fixes everything. But if things are going bad then I'm the one that gets all the blame. In the end, we all do it together.
Quite a lot of things are more important than playing football and what we do, we are blessed.
I don't really care, if somebody boos me or boos the team, we're trying to win the game.
It is a strength of mine to not really bother too much when people have their opinions, especially negative opinions.
The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.
To be in the Champions League final is something you need to experience. To win it would obviously be the best experience ever. To be there, the build-up - with the media even, the stadium, travelling, our fans - it's something very special.
Every step of my career was hard work.
I'm very happy to have already been welcomed into the LFC family, I'm a part of history having won the Champions League and hopefully we keep making history.
We want to play on the highest level and the Champions League, other than the Premier League for us, is the highest level.
If I watch big games like the Champions League on TV then I'm definitely watching what different centre-backs are doing in certain situations.
The Champions League is unbelievably big. The whole show before, the fans, the players you play against, the people who are going to watch the game, the pressure - it's very special.
