My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again. Dennis Bergkamp More Quotes by Dennis Bergkamp More Quotes From Dennis Bergkamp 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. Dennis Bergkamp footballsoccersports Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me. Dennis Bergkamp gunnersmy-thoughtsclubs I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies? Dennis Bergkamp trophiesarsenal Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. Dennis Bergkamp motivationalinspirationalsoccer I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends. Dennis Bergkamp being-sadfootballsports You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss. Dennis Bergkamp goalmissingwant 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. Dennis Bergkamp teamhurtfootball 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. Dennis Bergkamp footballpastthinking Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off. Dennis Bergkamp careerslittlesfootball 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. Dennis Bergkamp teamwinningsports 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? Dennis Bergkamp nicespacepeople People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you. Dennis Bergkamp clubsdoepeople 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. Dennis Bergkamp playerfootballsex I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful. Dennis Bergkamp successfulfootballsports 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 Dennis Bergkamp champions-leaguesportsthinking 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. Dennis Bergkamp teambeautifulsports My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course. Dennis Bergkamp differentgoalmean So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round. Dennis Bergkamp advertisingclubsway 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. Dennis Bergkamp christmaswinningsports 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. Dennis Bergkamp footballpeopleyears
