Dennis Bergkamp Quotes (22 Quotes)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Arsene is intelligent enough to know what that did to the team in selling Vieira. People saw how influential Patrick was on the pitch, dominating midfield by himself. But people also forget how he was off the pitch, how impressive he was in the dressing room, and how important he was for every other player, young and old. I think a lot of people underestimated that.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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,

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