Nicklas Bendtner Quotes

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Nicklas Bendtner

Profession : Footballer

Birth : January 16, 1988

There's a difference between arrogance and self-belief.

Nicklas Bendtner

When I was injured, and couldn't get the excitement from that absolute living-on-the-edge feeling on the pitch, gambling gave me adrenaline. Obviously the higher the risk, the higher the adrenaline. So you go for high stakes.

Nicklas Bendtner

If I cannot play at Arsenal, then I do not want to sit on the bench - but every player thinks like that.

Nicklas Bendtner

I feel like I have been misunderstood, in certain aspects.

Nicklas Bendtner

I watch all the Arsenal games I can and I've even got this thing that, when something happens in the game, my phone goes ping.

Nicklas Bendtner

The way I experienced the love of my father was when I succeeded at football. That self-belief was a way you got rewarded. In the way he always had my back, he was the most amazing father. But his way was not always correct and once I became a professional and earned a lot of money that tipped the balance in our relationship.

Nicklas Bendtner

I've never been a guy who cares about money as a way of showing off.

Nicklas Bendtner

Messi has a fantastic vision of the game and technically he is incredible. The things he does are not easy and even more impressive is the speed at which he does them. But the decisive thing for me is not the fact that he scores a lot of goals now, but how he plays within the team. In that way, he is even better.

Nicklas Bendtner

I have always seen myself as a striker and it is my goal to play as a striker all the time.

Nicklas Bendtner

I am an attacker, not a winger.

Nicklas Bendtner

It is important for me to play and when Arsene tells me to play a position I'll do that.

Nicklas Bendtner

It might be fun to play for Copenhagen, because it was there that it all began.

Nicklas Bendtner

I have high ambitions.

Nicklas Bendtner

I have a lot of confidence in my own ability. It's why I get frustrated when I'm not playing.

Nicklas Bendtner

If you find a football player who says he is happy to sit and watch and not play then I think he needs to find another job.

Nicklas Bendtner

I want to play, there's no doubt in my mind.

Nicklas Bendtner

When you're more or less broke it makes you think, 'It's got to stop.'

Nicklas Bendtner

The key thing was that I had no one in my life saying 'no.' Everyone I knew was just saying what I wanted to hear.

Nicklas Bendtner

I'm happy with the life I've lived.

Nicklas Bendtner

It wasn't Wenger's job to babysit me.

Nicklas Bendtner