Liverpool were confirmed Champions after Chelsea defeated Man City 2-1 at Stamford Bridge on Thursday night.
Speaking during his first press-conference as a Premier League champion he said:
'I called my family 10 seconds before the final whistle,' Klopp revealed. 'I told them I loved them and they said they loved me. That was a really nice moment.
'I still want to live for 30 or 40 years, I'm not interested in a statue. You don't have to compare me with these iconic figures.'
The Liverpool manager also spke about the weight of history at Anfield, and thanked the supporters for showing patience in his early years at the club.
'The history is no burden anymore. The history is now our wonderful background for the basis of what we are doing,' Klopp told Sky Sports News.
'When I came in, we had to say 'don't compare us anymore with anybody', with this wonderful, fantastic people who played for this club and won everything for this club in the past. We cannot - the world's changed.
'We need to get the opportunity from you actually, our supporters, to find our own way. This is only possible because nobody lost patience with us in any moment. Football managers is a nice job but a difficult one as well because we cannot really ask for time.
'We have to deliver immediately, people have to see the steps we make and people saw them because they wanted to see them. So the story was possible.'
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