It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
Now they just have to stop coming up with all sorts of weird ideas. You do not know what the next thing they think we should do is. Whether we’re going to run through fire or something. I sat and thought a bit about an idea one could give to them. Maybe the day after tomorrow or in a few days, they will do a stage where we do not know when there are goals. They say it is between 1 cm. and 300 km. and then all of a sudden it’s some man with a flag – maybe a dwarf. And then the stage is over.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Is it cool to be Nicklas Bendtner right now? It’s always cool to be Nicklas Bendtner.
I’m as happy as I can get – meeen I’ve been happier.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.
We had 99% of the game, it was the last 3% that cost us the victory.
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naive young boy really. With Peugeot, and es[Simpson]pecially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
We in FCK are always accused of being so damn arrogant, but the fact is that we are not nearly as arrogant as anyone else would have been in our shoes
It’s not about whether you get knocked down. It’s about whether you get back up again.
If you fail in your preparation, you might as well prepare to fail.
Sören Åkeby gets standing ovations when he says at a press conference that AGF will be Danish champions in three years, and there is not a single one who asks if he is raving insane.
My parents have been there for me ever since I was 7 years old.
A football player will not do well if he can not run around Funen without breathing.
Whoever said “it’s not just about winning” probably said it after losing.
Age is not an obstacle. It is a limitation you impose on your mind.
If you are not ready to go all the way, why go anywhere at all.
It’s not over until it’s over.
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.
Professional soccer is not a social office.
The top of it all is then, I really wished him (Solbakken, ed.) To get that victory goal made and piss on those farmers. And I want to be allowed to say “piss on those farmers” because those spectators do not deserve another name.
The winner blames himself. The loser blames others.