Christian Eriksen

“Talking to the press, you say things a little differently.”

“The more stable you are, if you have the same manager, mostly the same players, it makes it easier for the club to play as best as they can. It gives a bit of comfort.”

“At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who is scoring and who is not scoring. It's about winning games.”

“When you are new, it is difficult to get momentum and get to know your team-mates when you are not regularly in the team.”

“When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.”

“I've always been a runner.”

“I've played a lot of games - I started very early, and the first 50 games were just warm-up games.”

“In the future, I see myself at the highest level. That's what I dream about.”

“Every player wants to play more than 45 minutes, but it's the decision of the coach. You have to work hard.”

“I've always been a player on the move. It's not because I like running. I like getting the ball.”

“The most important thing is to try to do your best.”

“Generally, you're going into every game with excitement. You know you're going to play forward and not going to defend. You're going to try to create and score goals.”

“Villas-Boas wasn't a bad man, not at all.”

“From the start, all I did was play football. I briefly played badminton and won a tournament when I was 12, but really, it was always football.”

“When the team is doing well, you go with the flow. You get confidence, and you just build on that.”

“I'm my own person, and I think that's what everyone wants because it's difficult to be somebody else.”

“In Denmark, you are sure to play if you were good, but Ajax played you if you did not have the mentality and went 100 percent to it.”

“I focus on playing football, and there are many battles you have to think about and which must be won.”

“I had a lot of dealings with Bergkamp. I started with the under-17s at Ajax, and he was the assistant coach. Once or twice a week, we had individual one-to-one training sessions. You just watched Bergkamp. When you see him in training, he had skills that a guy just shouldn't be allowed to have.”

“You can definitely train your awareness to be even better than it is. Of course, you start with a certain point of feelings and awareness on the pitch. But I think the more you get in positions, the more you get used to it, the more you get used to the tempo of your team-mates, everything. It feels more and more natural, and quicker and quicker.”