Dennis Bergkamp Quotations

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?

You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled

It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.

Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.

We're still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.

I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

When I retired in 2006, I stayed for a further two years in England. I stayed because I wanted to be in England without being a footballer, without the rhythm. I wanted to enjoy the city.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place and his acceleration will take him past any defender in the world.

I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

I am just happy to play in any game (but) I can't talk about games in Europe when I'm not even playing at home at the moment.

I feel we are getting better in that we are getting more experience in it,

Playing with 10 men was difficult but we kept battling. This result has to give us confidence.

We haven't talked about money yet. People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

We created some chances in the first half and the sending-off made it difficult for us to get going. They equalized but we kept fighting and there was a good spirit. Maybe in the end we would have been happy with a point.

At the time I played with him (Ian), I didn't think I would ever play with another quite like him. I really didn't think that his record would ever be broken,

They equalized but we kept fighting and there was a good spirit. Maybe in the end we would have been happy with a point.

If you look at the whole package, with what Thierry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place, and his acceleration will take him past any defender.

I love the balance I have as a player. I come in and train in the mornings and then, in the afternoons, I live a very ordinary life.

In the past few weeks, you can see that the spirit and the football are coming back.