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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Inspirational
Motivational
Soccer
Ball
Behind
Thought
Every
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I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Time Game Day
Stands
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Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Arsenal
Clubs
Gunners
My Thoughts
Sign
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I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Arsenal
Trophies
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What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.
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Frank
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I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Sports
Football
Successful
Coach
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My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Aim
Games
Play
Player
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So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.
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Advertising
Clubs
Way
Round
Sign
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People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Clubs
Doe
People
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I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Sad
Sports
Being Sad
Football
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My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.
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Different
Goal
Mean
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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 / Soccer Player
Goal
Missing
Score
Want
Afraid
Miss
Goals
Shoot
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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 / Soccer Player
Careers
Football
Little Time
Littles
Rhythm
Trapped
Switch
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I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.
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Jobs
Difficult
Would Be
Time Myself Me
Manager
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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.
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Football
People
Years
Life Good Football
People Say
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It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Arsenal
English Football
Committing
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The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Space
Empty
Empty Space
Fall
Filled
Training
Life Space My Life
Matches
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I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.
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Sports
Atmosphere
Football
My Time
Italy
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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 / Soccer Player
Christmas
Smile
Sports
Championship
Focus
Thinking
Winning
Game
Period
Moment
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When I retired in 2006, I stayed for a further two years in England. I stayed because I wanted to be in England without being a footballer, without the rhythm. I wanted to enjoy the city.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
England
Footballer
Retired
Rhythm
Further
Stayed
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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 / Soccer Player
Sports
Champions League
Thinking
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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.
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Champions League
Emotion
League
Champions
Match
Overall
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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.
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Sports
Football
Soccer
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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 / Soccer Player
Football
France
Holland
Player
Sex
Spain
Italy
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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 / Soccer Player
Football
Past
Thinking
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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 / Soccer Player
Sports
Arsenal
Awards
Nice
Player
Good Always World
Good World Me
Helps
Noted
Reflect
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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.
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Sports
Chelsea
Motivated
Team
Winning
Beat
Finally
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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 / Soccer Player
Sports
Beautiful
Belief
Great Team
Needed
Team
Emotionally
Express
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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 / Soccer Player
Football
Hurt
Passing
Team
Trophies
Good Football Game
Teams
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So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
Dennis Bergkamp / Soccer Player
Sports
Affair
Arsenal
Bottom
Newspapers
Numbers
Player
Strange
Article
Shown
Surprised
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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 / Soccer Player
Sports
Aim
Compliment
Motivated
Rivals
Together
Tough
Trophies
Two
Adjusted
Beating
Biggest
Close
Matches
Suddenly
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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?
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Space
Nice
People
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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?'
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Holland
Goalkeeper
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