I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
Some people believe that football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with this attitude. I can guarantee that it is much more important than that.
Ultimately, it is the extra effort that separates the best from the second best. It requires ambition, determination, discipline and a willingness to sacrifice. If you add all this up, and even if you don’t win – how can you lose?
You can change wives, politics, religion… but you can never, ever change your favorite football team.
I do not, in principle, comment on judges. Especially not him here.
Brøndby is a good municipal brand. Now they just need to become a good football brand.
There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over. The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
We had 99% of the game, it was the last 3% that cost us the victory.
Is it cool to be Nicklas Bendtner right now? It’s always cool to be Nicklas Bendtner.
When it’s hurting you that’s when you can make a difference.
Set the bar high for your goals and don’t stop until you get there.
A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
I usually teasingly say that FCK is a superstructure, while Brøndby is a merger, a municipal entrepreneurial project that led to professional conditions.
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.
Today you can just show bare ass for ten seconds on TV, then you are world famous in Denmark. 25 years ago, it required much more starquality.
Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.
We’ve crazy about cycling. We just so like it.
Shut up legs
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.
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
There are some who claim that football is a matter of life and death. It’s an attitude that disappoints me. I can assure you that football is much more than that!
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.