Dennis Bergkamp

Athlete

Kingdom of the Netherlands

1969 - Present

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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
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
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
My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.
Dennis Bergkamp
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.
Dennis Bergkamp
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.
Dennis Bergkamp
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
What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.
Dennis Bergkamp
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
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